Are you excited to learn about one of the largest flying creatures in the world? Well you should be. This thing is going to blow your mind! It was huge, I'm talking gigantic, this thing was so big you wouldn't believe it! It was the hawk...slightly depressing. Even more depressing if you believed it because airplanes. Airplanes aren't actually living though, but you could count the people inside them, right? Anyways, one of the largest flying creatures in the world was the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, lets just call it the Quetzalcoatlus for time's sake. The Quetzalcoatlus was a species of Pterosaur, the "P" is silent, that rained through the skies around 60 million years ago. The Quetzalcoatlus didn't even have teeth, yet it played an important role in the ecosystem, its wingspan alone stretched 39 feet! Apparently, these creatures were so large they had to have a running start just to take off and they had a hard time landing. Not much is known about the creatures. Their bones are very fragile these days and paleontologists have a hard time finding the bones. Scientists believe that Pterosaurs liked to live near rivers, lakes, etc. which seems like common sense because you need water to survive. The Quetzalcoatlus diet was pretty straightforward. They ate small prey and carrion, which is just animals that were already dead. Their diets are a bit like diets of buzzards or vultures, mainly carrion and sometimes small prey. I think that the Quetzalcoatlus is pretty cool, but terrifying. I would love for scientists to find out more about them just so I can learn about them as well.
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