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Hatzegopteryx: The 11-Meter Predator That Ruled 66 Million Years Ago

Suhail Ahmed

On a vanished island in what’s now Romania, a shadow once skimmed the ground – wider than a city bus and armed with a beak built like a crowbar. That shadow belonged to Hatzegopteryx, a colossal azhdarchid pterosaur that lived at the very end of the Cretaceous, roughly sixty-six million years ago. Its story reads ...