Its body was as long as a yellow school bus!
More than 86 million years ago, a predator with a body as long as a yellow school bus roamed the earth alongside dinosaurs.
The ancient flying reptile, or pterosaur, was around 30 feet long and would surely have been an absolutely terrifying sight as it stalked its prey from the air. A team of scientists unearthed the fossilized remains of this massive flying reptile, dubbed the"Dragon of Death", in the Andes mountains in Argentina's western Mendoza province,Forget about birds and bats for a second and go back to the Jurassic and Cretaceous epochs. Pterosaurs were reptiles who ruled the skies throughout these periods, as well as the first creatures to acquire powered flight, after insects,.
Pterosaurs reigned and conquered all continents because they simply had no competitors in the sky. This allowed them to evolve a diverse range of shapes and sizes. The smallest one we were ever able to find was little larger than a sparrow, while the largest was a 40-foot long pterosaur that was broader than an F-16 fighter plane.Thanatosdrakon amaru
, is the largest pterosaur ever discovered in South America. It's also one of the largest flying vertebrates known to have existed.Paleontologists unearthed the remains of the ancient flying reptile in Argentina's western Mendoza province's Andes mountains.
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