Today, scientists are still actively debating how exactly they flew, and lived in general.
Estimates on their weight range from one hundred fifty pounds to five hundred pounds.
This leads some to postulate that they were actually too heavy to fly.
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However, their massive sternums suggest powerful flying muscles.
TheQuetzalcoatluswas the size of a giraffe and still managed to fly.
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They lived in what was then marshland and open fields.
Life restoration 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 through the scrub in search of small vertebrates and other food. (Photo: Mark Witton and Darren Naish, via Wikimedia/CC BY 3.0)
Life restoration of a group of giant azhdarchids,Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie.
