[Red Badger]

Ping!.................

[PAR35]

vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queensland

Looks like they have a litte oil production in that region, but perhaps they need to bring in more rigs. Sounds worth wildcatting to me.

[Beowulf9]

About a 23 foot wingspan. Huge.

[al_c]

[BipolarBob]

I want one. I want one cloned now.

[Tallguy]

I remember reading years ago about an Ostrich rancher in Australia losing almost his entire flock when they were stampeded by an ultra-light aircraft passing overhead and the ‘herd’ got entangled in wire border fencing with broken limbs and pretty much died of fright.

Genetic memories of a large winged predator?

[xp38]

Flintstones Pterodactyl Airlines

[Pollard]

[Getready]

Nice find. Was the skull that Mr. Richards (presumably Dr. Richards by now) is posing with... a reconstruction of what they thought it should have looked like based on the amount of material they actually found? From the schematic diagram there is a small section of a brownish stippled color depicted. The rest is in black and white. My guess is that brown stippled area is all they found. So lots of conjecture is at play, it would seem.

Interesting to say the least. Thunderbird, phoenix, puff the magic dragon, rocs ,may not be so fanciful after all.

[Ransomed]

Quetzalcoatlus supposedly had a 10+ meter wingspan and stood as tall as a giraffe on the ground, 10 feet high at the shoulder. I guess some people originally estimated it might have had a 15 meter wingspan, around 50 feet.

Freegards

[PapaBear3625]

I’m thinking its natural prey would be to snatch smaller flyers out of the air.

[pangaea6]

Probably where legend of dragons comes from, I believe they were around longer than folks think, or sooner

[NWFree]

Time for another Jurassic park sequel

[minnesota_bound]

I guess the dragon lore comes from fossils dug up long ago and the people then did not know how old those bones were.

[going hot]

Resembles somewhat a reptilian prototype of the later porpoise snout, minus the brain case.

likely a good swimming thing grabber.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[null and void]

"“It’s tempting to think it may have swooped like a magpie during mating season, making your local magpie swoop look pretty trivial – no amount of zip ties would have saved you."

Huh? How does a zip tie save you from a mating magpie?

[piasa]

Those bony crests on its jaws remind me of the bony crests on the beaks of white pelicans. Maybe they help with the entry into the water during a dive for fish.

[piasa]

In white pelicans the bony crest on the beak is temporary, appearing on both sexes only during the breeding season, for what it is worth. That would be a time of more intense competition for food with which to feed the young, and leading up to breeding season, a time to find and possibly defend a nesting site.