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Posted on 05/26/2022 6:18:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Scientists have uncovered the remains of one of the largest pterosaurs on record, researchers announced in a study published Tuesday in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research.
The fossils are from the largest-ever pterosaur found in South America, and one of the largest flying vertebrates in the world, according to researchers.
The discovery of two separate animals was made in an outcrop in Argentina's Mendoza province and published in April.
The Thanatosdrakon amaru is a new azhdarchid, a member of the pterosaur family of large, flying predators, predominantly from the Late Cretaceous Period.
The name is a combination of Thanatos, the Greek word for death, and drakon, meaning dragon, leading scientists to call it the Dragon of Death.
Researchers confirmed they lived between 146 million and 66 million years ago, or approximately 20 million years before a catastrophic asteroid collided with Earth.
Wingspans of the two animals measured approximately 23 feet wide and 30 feet wide, around the length of a school bus. With no predatory rivals, pterosaurs are believed to have flown on all continents, in various different shapes.
"The remains of Thanatosdrakon present different particularities that allow us to differentiate them from other known pterosaurs," study lead author Leonardo Ortiz of Argentina's Laboratory and Museum of Dinosaurs told USA Today.
"Fundamentally, these characteristics are found in the vertebrae and limbs. This allowed us to establish a new species of pterosaur."
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Sounds like a Bruce Lee movie........................
The way to handle these Massive Flying Dragons of Death is to bombard them with Tylenol!
I’m not sure that I’ve ever heard of that theory regarding the absence of large flying birds. Interesting and thanks for the link.
I’m an “old earth” creationist but have an open mind. That passage in Job (previously posted) I explain it as people saw the old fossils and tried to make sense of them. And God could have used those mysteries (in the people’s eyes) to explain how great He is.
I’m pretty sure that no known creature has, or ever will, breath fire out of its mouth. Would make for a good story though.
Or - people were around when the dinosaurs were around. But then I would think there would be even more stories about them that would have been passed down through the generations.
“Well, you think today things are bad!? Just be glad you didn’t live back in the day when a dinosaur could smash your home with one foot or pick you off the ground and fly away to eat you!”
Although I guess with that reasoning there would be a whole bunch more written about the Nephalem in the Bible!?
Ted Holden: Do Dinosaurs Pose a Gravity Problem? | Space News
90,784 views Mar 22, 2017 In this episode, we ask Ted Holden, author of “Cosmos in Collision”, to explore the controversial question: Do dinosaurs pose a gravity problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMOfYcbdI8
FYI
Thanks for the link.
Reminds me of the person (maybe the same guy?) that postulates that some dinosaurs are still with us, just a lot smaller (iguanas, etc.)
“I’m pretty sure that no known creature has, or ever will, breath fire out of its mouth. Would make for a good story though.”
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Bombardier beetles come pretty close.
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