Researchers believe that the body plan suggests a predator that ate small prey items, much the same way modern Marabou storks do. Still, at 500 or so pounds, it would not be fun to bump into in tall grass...
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Originally posted by 12131: Artist's impression of a group of Quetzalcoatlus feeding on the ground.
The artist may have taken too much liberty with the one "Quet Bird" eating what appears to be a Brontosuarus. Those things would have squished the puny 500 lb pre-bird into the ground given an adult Brontosaurus weighed around 30,000 lbs! Hatched, I suspect even Bronto babies were decent in size.
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Originally posted by Hound Dog: Carnivorous giraffes.
With the power of flight.
Yeah. Terrifying. Thank God they are extinct.
Hmmmm, you haven't felt any tremors near your home?
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The artist may have taken too much liberty with the one "Quet Bird" eating what appears to be a Brontosuarus. Those things would have squished the puny 500 lb pre-bird into the ground given an adult Brontosaurus weighed around 30,000 lbs! Hatched, I suspect even Bronto babies were decent in size.
There are sauropods of varying size, and it's not really possible to determine that infant's species.
Even if it were an Apatosaur or Brontosaur, their eggs were surprisingly small; something like football or basketball size, IIRC.
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The artist may have taken too much liberty with the one "Quet Bird" eating what appears to be a Brontosuarus. Those things would have squished the puny 500 lb pre-bird into the ground given an adult Brontosaurus weighed around 30,000 lbs! Hatched, I suspect even Bronto babies were decent in size.
Even the largest sauropods were hatched from eggs around the size of a basketball, making the babies even smaller. The artists rendering is not necessarily out of the question, although they are thought to grow very rapidly.
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