Bad news dragon riders: Your dragon can't take off. A new analysis of the largest of pterodactyls suggests they were too big and their muscles too weak to vault into the air and fly. Instead, they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Towering over the skies with wings as wide as a Cessna, Quetzalcoatlus wasn’t your average prehistoric flyer. This massive pterosaur defied what we thought was possible for flight. In this episode, we ...

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 ...

Long before airplanes, the skies belonged to giants - and Quetzalcoatlus was one of the biggest. In this video, we explore the incredible world of this massive pterosaur, with a wingspan rivaling a ...

Of all the prehistoric creatures that once filled the skies, you don’t get much bigger — or weirder — than the Quetzalcoatlus. “You’re talking an animal that stands up like a giraffe, the size of a ...

Ahead of tomorrow's eagerly awaited new theatrical trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, Universal has released another action-packed new TV spot, this time spotlighting some of the dinos that'll be at ...

Artist's impression of a group of giant azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie. A juvenile titanosaur has been caught by one pterosaur, while the others stalk ...

Look around any wetland today and you're likely to see 3-foot-tall egrets or 4-foot-tall herons wading in the shallows in stealthy search of fish, insects or crustaceans. But 70 million years ago, ...