Quetzalcoatlus vs Argentavis | Who Rules The Skies?
In today's debate we have two rulers of the skies from seperate eras. In one corner we have one of the largest flying organisms to ever exist, known as Quetzalcoatlus. In the other corner, we have the heaviest bird to take to the skies, known as Argentavis. Who will rule the skies? Stay tuned and find out!
If you enjoyed then I'd appreciate if you like and subscribed!
I do not own any of the footage and images utilized, they belong to their respected sources
Thumbnail Picture Credit
Quetz: Spuno
Argi: Prehistorica_CM
Sources
Witton, M. P., & Habib, M. B. (2010). On the size and flight diversity of giant pterosaurs, the use of birds as pterosaur analogues and comments on pterosaur flightlessness. PloS one, 5(11), e13982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
Goto, Y., Yoda, K., Weimerskirch, H., & Sato, K. (2022). How did extinct giant birds and pterosaurs fly? A comprehensive modeling approach to evaluate soaring performance. PNAS nexus, 1(1), pgac023. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pga...
Witton, M. P. (2019) We need to talk about teratorns https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2...
Chatterjee, S., Templin, R.J. and Campbell, K.E. (2007) ‘The aerodynamics of argentavis, the world’s largest flying bird from the miocene of Argentina’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(30), pp. 12398–12403. doi:10.1073/pnas.0702040104.
Witton, M. P., & Naish, D. (2008). A reappraisal of azhdarchid pterosaur functional morphology and paleoecology. PloS one, 3(5), e2271. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
Williams, H. J., Shepard, E. L. C., Holton, M. D., Alarcón, P. A. E., Wilson, R. P., & Lambertucci, S. A. (2020). Physical limits of flight performance in the heaviest soaring bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(30), 17884–17890. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907360117
#dinosaur #quetzalcoatlus #argentavis #vs #debate