Gigantic dinosaur-eating plane-size reptile discovered in Mongolia

FoxNews: Science ^ | Nov 2, 2017

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A monstrous, meat-eating flying reptile that had a wingspan of a small airplane, could walk on all fours and stalked its prey on land has been found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Fortunately for us humans, who would have made for a delightful midday snack, this pterosaur is dead. Long dead. Seventy million years dead.

With an approximately 36-foot wingspan, “It might have been this quite robust, formidable predator,” Mark Witton, an expert on pterosaurs at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K., told National Geographic. “They seem to be feeding on things on the ground and are generalist in their ability to grab basically whatever they can fit in their beaks.”

Thankfully, that didn’t include humans, who weren’t around at the time. Scientists think this pterosaur had to settle for a diet of little dinosaurs. ..."

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What they discovered were the remains of a flying monster that would have stood 18 feet high on the ground and had a wingspan that rivaled the length of the two largest pterosaurs currently known: Quetzalcoatlus, found in Texas in the 1970s, and Hatzegopteryx, found in Romania in the 1990s.

The Mongolian pterosaur has not been declared a new species yet, because of its incomplete remains.

Quetzalcoatlus

Hatzegopteryx

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The stars of “Pitch Black”, the sci-fi movie, or relatives of Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton (the meat-eater, leaf-eater, free-buffet eater).

[Maudeen]

Seventy million years dead.

Is this Scripturally correct? Just sayin'

[Redcitizen]

Looking at the drawings, I think of flying giraffes.

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[MayflowerMadam]

Not. :)

[Redcitizen]

Definitely dead for sure.

[Redcitizen]

Great pic! And a good comparison for scale.

[Pelham]

Godzilla used to roll with these dudes

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[Fungi]

Rodan .

[BenLurkin]

1 eyed 1 horned Flying Purple People Eater.

[RandallFlagg]

Fortunately for us humans, who would have made for a delightful midday snack, this pterosaur is dead. Long dead. Seventy million years dead.

DAMN!
Imagine the steaks we could make outta that.
A little spices....BBQ sauce....

"The best way to prevent a species from becoming extinct is to eat them." --Rush Limbaugh

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1 eyed, 1 horned, Flying Purple People Eater.

It only ate purple people?

[Beowulf9]

This is great. Really helps make those billions of years categorize neatly.

[Bellflower]

Such a fancy little ol made up chart, oh so compelling, that is for those who want to be compelled.

[Fungi]

No where on earth does a complete stratigraphic column like that exist.

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[LegendHasIt]

Plane sized?

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