Articles for tag: Dinosaur Era, Flying Reptiles, Fossil Facts, Prehistoric Giants, Pterosaurs

5 Flying Reptiles From 70 Million Years Ago That Dwarf Modern Birds

Suhail Ahmed

Picture the closing chapters of the Cretaceous, when shorelines were louder, skies busier, and the largest flying animals ever known prowled like herons with skyscraper wings. The puzzle scientists are still piecing together is how such giants rose from the ground, hunted, and survived in a world already tipping toward catastrophe. New analyses of fossil ...

Quetzalcoatlus

6 Theories on How the Largest Flyers Stayed Airborne

Suhail Ahmed

They stretched wider than a small plane, casting moving shadows that must have startled anything below. Yet the real shock isn’t their size – it’s the idea that they flew at all. Pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus and giant birds such as Argentavis and Pelagornis didn’t just drift; they launched, climbed, and crossed distances that would tire ...