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Long before airplanes, the skies belonged to giants - and Quetzalcoatlus was one of the biggest. In this video, we explore the incredible world of this massive pterosaur, with a wingspan rivaling a ...

Towering over the skies with wings as wide as a Cessna, Quetzalcoatlus wasn’t your average prehistoric flyer. This massive pterosaur defied what we thought was possible for flight. In this episode, we ...

Of all the prehistoric creatures that once filled the skies, you don’t get much bigger — or weirder — than the Quetzalcoatlus. “You’re talking an animal that stands up like a giraffe, the size of a ...

Look around any wetland today and you're likely to see 3-foot-tall egrets or 4-foot-tall herons wading in the shallows in stealthy search of fish, insects or crustaceans. But 70 million years ago, ...