What Was The Biggest Flying Animal Ever?

Million of years ago the largest animals that ever took to the skies lived alongside the dinosaurs. These were the azhdarchid pterosaurs, including Quetzalcoatlus, Hatzegopteryx, Arambourgiania, Cryodrakon and more! Wonder Artistic Models: https://wonderartisticmodels.com/ Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSzwZqgtJEnUzacq3ddoOQ/join Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/jTsGYtRBHZ Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv Music by Geographer Subscribe to explore the wonderful life around you! Social Media: ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenGThomas42 ►Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv ►Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BenGThomas Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1780247 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2021.1907587 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002271 https://peerj.com/articles/2908/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2017.1361431 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122000921?via%3Dihub https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP455.6 https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/207/89934/Discovery_of_the_holotype_of_the_giant_pterosaur_T?af=crossref https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/epdf/10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.217.01.08 https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-giant-azhdarchid-arambourgiania.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.187.4180.947 https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_314_3/TZ_314_3_Averyanov.pdf https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2013/08/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-giant.html https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/translated_publications/Cai%26amp%3BWei_94.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2017.1361431 https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00306-0 https://doc.rero.ch/record/16209/files/PAL_E3417.pdf https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/gsl.sp.2003.217.01.09 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2019.1649681 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4523713 https://peerj.com/articles/2908/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/24964287 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331024094_A_cervical_vertebra_of_Arambourgiania_philadelphiae_Pterosauria_Azhdarchidae_from_the_late_Campanian_micaceous_facies_of_the_Coon_Creek_Formation_in_McNairy_County_Tennessee_USA https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1003851316054 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sgf/bsgf/article-abstract/167/6/753/122867/A-terminal-Cretaceous-pterosaur-from-the-Corbieres?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP343.19 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013982 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724631003758334?casa_token=Q2i18I8EeEwAAAAA%3AUQaZ2a0Ucdp6REIaS_cYOJ8MAXkRHUKxozGH8ugDPF-J8NCIxvaZqJ9UGpgvNvcpsCDQEzcXo9vH https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1320297111 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0702040104 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004497 https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/215/5/711/11225/Scaling-of-wingbeat-frequency-with-body-mass-in https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Island_Bats/FLIaH43TcrEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA405&printsec=frontcover https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1105113 https://eartharchives.org/articles/the-biggest-insect-ever-was-a-huge-dragonfly/index.html https://siriscientificpress.co.uk/products/fossil-insects-an-introduction-to-palaeoentomology https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/39/2/article-p223_7.xml https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30629-w 0:00 - Introduction 1:10 - Azhdarchid research history 5:17 - Azhdarchid anatomy 14:34 - Azhdarchid size estimates 20:23 - Dracula the pterosaur 23:47 - Azhdarchid mass estimates 26:12 - The largest flying bird? 28:06 - The largest bat? 30:00 - The largest flying insect? 31:11 - Prehistoric animal models! (WONDER Artistic Models)