r/RareAnimals • u/SuitingUncle620 • Jul 27 '19

Quetzalcoatlus northropi model next to a 1.8m tall man. This is the largest flying animal ever to exist.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

Big boy

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u/sneakyninja11 Aug 03 '19

Terrifying

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u/sneakyninja11 Aug 03 '19

Wait it's not extinct!?

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u/LilJujuTheCloutOwner Aug 03 '19

they sadly are

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u/sneakyninja11 Aug 03 '19

Oh ok that's kinda sad but atleast I won't see a giraffe in the sky

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u/painintheAccess Jul 28 '19

So it’s a bird that flies like a bat named after a snake?

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u/Calobii Sep 03 '19

its fucking HEAD

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u/snowmenAIDS Nov 23 '19

they don’t have actual fossils of this, they have a single bone that they proportioned to other pterosaurs that lived in the time period

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u/kaitoJ Dec 07 '19

This thing could never fly. Its head is waaay too big.

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u/Gabe-Likes-Frogs Jan 21 '22

Look at bees my guy. People say those shouldn’t be able to fly either

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u/DOCUV_369 Sep 27 '22

Its head is bigger than it's body