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 ...

Quetzalcoatlus pushed the very boundaries of size to the brink, considered the largest flying animal yet to be discovered. Any larger, and it would have had to walk. But its bulk caused researchers to ...

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 ...

As the world neared the end of the dinosaur age, one creature claimed the heavens, Quetzalcoatlus, the ultimate aerial predator. With wings stretching over 30 feet, it hunted across river deltas ...

Paul MacCready is a 60-year-old Pasadena father of three who has never let go of his childhood obsession–flight. At 12, he watched undaunted as his model airplanes took to the air and, occasionally, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. G'day, Dr Karl here. Now if I say the word pterodactyl — you're probably imagining giant two-legged ...

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 ...