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Quetzalcoatlus—a member of the ancient group of flying reptiles called pterosaurs—was the largest flying creature to ever live. This giraffe-sized reptile had thin limbs, a terrifyingly long beak and ...

The largest-ever flying animal acted like a giant heron, plucking prey from the water and launching itself into the air. Quetzalcoatlus northropi was a pterosaur which ruled the skies for millions of ...

Quetzalcoatlus pushed the very boundaries of size to the brink, considered the largest flying animal yet to be discovered. Any larger, and it would have had to walk. But its bulk caused researchers to ...

The Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl is one of those great all-purpose deities – in contrast to, say, Verminus, the strangely specialized Roman god of cattle worms. A feathered serpent of sorts, ...

Scientists have decoded the mystery of how a giant dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago learned to fly. Paleontologists have known about the existence of the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus that ...

The bones of an extinct reptile tell a story of how this ancient creature took an 8-foot leap of faith in the air to take flight, new research has revealed. The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, the largest ...

Though discovered more than 45 years ago, fossils of Earth's largest flying animal, Quetzalcoatlus, were never thoroughly analyzed. Now, a scientific team provides the most complete picture yet of ...