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Flying Reptile The Size of A Small Airplane
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a New Zealand Herald article about a pterosaur that has been discovered to have an almost 18 meter wingspan. From the article: "A Spitfire has a wingspan of 11m and has to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Pterosaurs did it on a diet of fish and a superb ability to utilise air currents, thermals and ground effects. There is nothing close to pterosaurs alive today. Pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, they left no descendants and we don't know quite what their closest relative was."
Pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, they left no descendants and we don't know quite what their closest relative was
I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess that the closest relative to a Pterosaur would be another Pterosaur.
Either that, or a Spitfire.
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Dinosaurs were big.
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Pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, they left no descendants and we don't know quite what their closest relative was
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Being under modern birds at the wrong moment can be bad enough. Can you imagine what being shat upon by one of these would be like?
this clearly contradicts the bible and can't possibly be true
Idiot, they're extinct.
I for one welcome our airplane sized extinct reptile overlords
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That would be a person hanging from a 18m span glider on a fish eating diet?
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Yeah, but the evolution of planes is... intelligent design :-)
No they are not fish powered, I hear then run on Petrosaurses. Very very dead ones.
Yeah, they're like giant chicks
That's never stopped the "Bank of Nigeria" from sending me email about lost fortunes from unknown relatives before. Either that or the wife or daughter of the late President Pterosaur will be contacting me shortly.
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Yeah, but the evolution of planes is... intelligent design :-)
Unlike the evolution of automobiles.
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"There is nothing close to pterosaurs alive today."
Best news I've heard all day.
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That's just silly talk, mister. The Gossamer Albatross has a wingspan of over 3 Libraries of Congress, stands taller than a Volkswagen, and can fly faster than nine football fields.
Idiot, they're extinct.
I for one bid farewell to our extinct airplane sized reptile overlords.
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Imagine the pterror that other creatures must have felt when it came winging over the ptreetops. I would be ptrembling in my raptor-skin boots, for sure.
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