Podcasts about quetzalcoatlus

Digger Rex goes in search of the mighty Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying reptiles to ever soar above prehistoric Earth.

Pterosaurs ruled the skies for over 150 million years—but their family tree is more complex than most people realize. In this video, we break down the incredible evolutionary journey of these flying reptiles, from early species to massive giants like Quetzalcoatlus. You'll learn how paleontologists classify different pterosaur groups and what makes each one unique.

Prehistoric animals were so wild, they'd fit right into a sci-fi movie! The Therizinosaurus had massive claws that looked like something from an alien invader—perfect for scaring off predators. Then there was the Anomalocaris, a shrimp-like creature with big, bulging eyes and spiky appendages that made it look more alien than oceanic. The Quetzalcoatlus was a flying reptile the size of a small plane, soaring through the skies like something straight out of another world. Don't forget the Opabinia, with five eyes and a weird grabber nose—it's like nature got super creative. These ancient creatures remind us that Earth's history is filled with beings as strange and fascinating as anything from outer space! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soar into prehistory with "Monsters, Sharks, and Dinosaurs" as we explore Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature in Earth's history. This episode examines how this massive pterosaur—with its 36-foot wingspan and harpoon-like beak—challenges our understanding of biological flight. Featured in "Jurassic World Dominion," this aerial giant remains less familiar than T-Rex despite its impressive capabilities. We discuss its hunting techniques, revolutionary launch mechanism, and how it pushed the very limits of evolutionary possibility. Discover why this Cretaceous predator represents nature's perfect solution to conquering the skies millions of years before human aviation.Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there's free shipping? Get 10% off with code NewMerch10 Go to Caloroga.comGet more info from Caloroga Shark Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com

After months of technical mishaps, we finally managed to get the podcast back up and running! Marc, Gemma and Natee start off by having a little moan about terrible dinosaur movies before moving into a fun German book Gemma found at a school! We got some typical late 80s fare, with some very unusual depictions of dinosaurs... Then, Gemma and Marc interview Yasmin Grooters, head of the dinosaur lab at Naturalis Leiden, who recently finished work on a whole herd of Triceratops! Will Natee narrate the next Walking With Dinosaurs special? How is a Quetzalcoatlus like a pair of embroidery scissors? How do you put a museum exhibition together? How many cute nicknames can you give to a giant dinosaur? When are the Hadrosaur Gang going to drop their ballin' hip hop album? And what in the name of all that is holy is wrong with that Deinocheirus? We're back!   Show Notes at Chasmosaurs!

General Reso fought her way through the post-apocalypse. Only her severed hand reached Banyan Island. This is her story.   Killings demonstrates her Pact of the Chain. Lilian hypnotizes nasty foes for some dubious experiments. Stranger turns into a Quetzalcoatlus gargoyle.   STARRING - Austin Yorski: https://bsky.app/profile/austinyorski.bsky.social Quinn Larios: https://bsky.app/profile/rollot.bsky.social Sara: https://bsky.app/profile/cosmignon.bsky.social   SUPPORT - Patreon.com/AustinYorski Patreon.com/Cosmignon Patreon.com/WeeklyMangaRecap   ART - @TheFeyChild   AUDIO - OC ReMix #1527: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'Walk on Water' [Hydrocity Zone: Act 1] by housethegrate (youtube.com) Silent Hill 2 OC ReMix by HoboKa: "Numbness & Knives" [Promise (Reprise)] Super Metroid OC ReMix by 744: "Submergence" [Title, Maridia - Rocky Underground Water Area] (#4462) (youtube.com)   DISCORD - https://discord.gg/YMU3qUH

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Some dinosaurs have feathers and some don't. Some dinosaurs can fly and some can't. Just what is it going to take to get a T. rex to fly?Written especially for this podcast by Simon. If you enjoyed this story, please do leave us a review. And, if you'd like to suggest an animal for a future Animal Tales story, you can do so by emailing podcast@animaltales.uk. We would love to hear from you. Become a PREMIUM SubscriberYou can now enjoy Animal Tales by becoming a Premium Subscriber. This gets you:All episodes in our catalogue advert freeBonus Premium-only episodes (minimum of one per month) which will never be used on the main podcastWe guarantee to use one of your animal suggestions in a storyYou can sign up through Apple Podcasts or through Supercast and there are both monthly and yearly plans available. Discover a brand new story every Monday, Wednesday and Friday – just for you! You can find more Animal Tales at https://www.spreaker.com/show/animal-tales-the-kids-story-podcast

Den blodsugende kua som blir til burger i sola! Med biolog og ku-fluencer Kirsti Winnberg (@kunnskapomkua).8:00 - Hvor skummel kan en ku bli?14:30 - Ku spiser gress, Hellcow spiser blod. Hva kan en ku egentlig spise?21:50 - Hva er vampyrsk melk?28:33 - Hvordan kommuniserer kyr, og hva betyr egentlig “mø”?34:05 - Går det an å leve av blod?45:45 - Hva er forskjellen på ku og flaggermus?51:34 - Hva trengs for å kunne fly når man er en ku på over 500 kg? (Biologi-edition)56:49 - Hva trengs for å kunne fly når man er en ku på over 500 kg? (Fysikk-edition)1:00:14 - Hva skjer når Hellcow blir til gass, og så til ku igjen?1:07:29 - Hellcow blir en burger - fysikk eller politikk?1:09:54 - KAPPE-score!Quetzalcoatlus, det største flyvende dyret som har eksistert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus Faktafiks (fra Kirsti):1: En ku veier visst 800 kilo .... eller altså. De "vanligste" kyrne vi har gjør det. 500 er slaktemoden okse/liten ku

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Pectinodon, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Pectinodon-Episode-447/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.80 ton Alamosaurus, Tyrannosaurus losing to Quetzalcoatlus, and sauropods being killed by lightning (but not for the reason you think).Dinosaur of the day Pectinodon, a Troodontid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Wyoming and is featured eating flies and a duck-like dinosaur in Prehistoric Planet 2. Sponsors:This episode is brought to you by Mylio Photos. Organize, Protect, Rediscover a lifetime of photos & videos. Download Mylio Photos for free at mylio.com/dino. Just for our community, get 25% off Mylio Photos+ by going to mylio.com/dino and keep all of your backups perfectly synched and available on all your devices at all times.The PaleoPins Collection: Diversity Expansion Kickstarter expands on The PaleoPins Collection with new prehistoric animal skulls! They have new designs like Dunkleosteus, Mosasaurus, and Diplodocus. Plus, as a perk for backing, you get access to the original line of The PaleoPins Collection with over a dozen dinosaurs (plus even more prehistoric animals). Check them out and get yours at bit.ly/paleopinsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Millions of years ago there lived a giant flying animal we now call Quetzalcoatlus. The giant fossils recovered gives us a rough idea of how truly big and magnificent these creatures were. Get some fresh air this weekend and enjoy the little things in life.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Falcatakely, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Falcatakely-Episode-445/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Falcatakely, an enantiornithean bird from Madagascar that looked like a small toucan with teeth.Pachycephalosaurus head-butting, Austroraptor fishing, T. rex stalking prey at night, and more dinosaur action in the Cretaceous swamps.Dimetrodon is the subject of the third episode of I Know Paleo, an exclusive series for Triceratops patrons and up. Our first episode was all about Terror birds and our second was about Quetzalcoatlus. Get access to all three I Know Paleo episodes and every future episode (plus other rewards) by joining at Patreon.com/iknowdinoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aloha!! It's time to soar into a tropical paradise for this tikiland-like review. Our next prehistoric flying reptile would've just been so beautiful flying over the lush palm trees, the white sandy beaches, & the rocky volcanos of Hawaii. For this next adventure we will also be joined by a very special guest making their debut on the Dinosaur Review for Kids podcast. Let's hang loose & start this tropical getaway. Listen now!!

Heute mit: fliegenden Sauriern, die keine Dinos waren, giraffengroßen Störchen und einer Dinosaurierautobahn! Ihr habt ganz richtig gehört. Jule und Schlauschwein Sparky drehen schon zum dritten Mal die Zeit ganz weit zurück und wollen alles über fliegende Urzeitechsen herausfinden. Mit dabei ist natürlich auch Paläontologin Daniela Schwarz vom Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, die uns erst einmal den Unterschied zwischen Dinosauriern und Flugsauriern erklärt. Und natürlich hilft die Dinoexpertin auch bei euren Fragen: Sind Drachen in Wirklichkeit Dinos? Warum konnten manche Dinos trotz Federn nicht fliegen? Warum konnte der Quetzalcoatlus fliegen, obwohl er groß und schwer war? Wozu brauchte der Pterodactylus ein Horn auf dem Kopf? Wenn ihr auch eine Frage habt, zu Viren und Bakterien, warum wir zum Beispiel manchmal eine Erkältung bekommen oder warum man sich nach dem Klo die Hände waschen soll, dann sendet uns eure Frage als Sprachnachricht an 0176 - 921 362 08 oder eine E-Mail an sos@mfn.berlin. Eine Produktion der Auf die Ohren GmbH.

Find the full show notes at www.jurassicparkpodcast.comWelcome to The Jurassic Park Podcast! In episode 335, we check in on some Jurassic World Dominion News, including the box office and the film coming to Peacock. After that, we hear from Conor O'Keeffe with another installment of Dino DNA! Conor is joined by Paleontologist Natalia Jagielska to discuss the Pterosaurs of the Jurassic Franchise. Sit back, relax and ENJOY this episode of The Jurassic Park Podcast!News JWD Box Office JWD on Peacock Don't forget to give our voicemail line a call at 732-825-7763!Email us: jurassicparkpod@gmail.comBook Club Email: jurassicparkbookclub@gmail.comThanks for listening, stay safe and enjoy!

The long awaited dinosaur documentary Prehistoric Planet is finally here! The Apple  TV+ show  unveils the spectacular habitats and inhabitants of ancient Earth in an immersive digital experience. Using modern science and CGI, it gives us a possible look at the earth millions of years ago.Trey and Miles break down the show, the science, and what they thought about the story telling.Miles also tells the story of the Lord Howe's Island Stick Insect, one of the most amazing discoveries of an extinct species.Trey talks about some Roman Cheese Cake. There is a ramble about Avatar as well. *Shrug*There is no Monster Quest this episode. Instead there is coverage of the following two Prehistoric Planet Episodes. "Ice Worlds": Dromaeosaurs stalk a hadrosaur herd as they cross a freezing river. Male Ornithomimus raid rivals' nests to bolster their own. A herd of Olorotitan raise their offspring on fertile volcanic fields but contend with biting mosquitoes. A troodontid flushes out mammals by spreading a forest fire. A juvenile Antarctopelta scours the forest for a new winter den. A Pachyrhinosaurus herd stands off against a pack of Nanuqsaurus."Fresh Water"Velociraptor hunt pterosaurs on a cliffside by a waterfall. An old, battle-scarred male Tyrannosaurus nurses his wounds and encounters a younger female. A Deinocheirus seeks relief from biting flies. A female Quetzalcoatlus builds and guards her nest. A mother Masiakasaurus and her family hunt crabs and encounter Beelzebufo. Elasmosaurs enter an estuary in search of fish.((NOTE: This Episode has a few audio level problems) Support the show

Join us as we travel back 65 million years to the Jurassic period...or is it the Cretaceious? Or maybe just 29 years it takes to go back to the original Jurassic Park? No, sorry, our bad! Time Machine's broken... It's closer to two weeks back and it's time for Jurassic World: Dominion! Finally putting the Jurassic franchise back into amber is this conclusion to the 6 film (and some animated shows) series. Does it run, walk, open doors or get stuck in the Tar... we will tell you right now. Dino-Dion, Jurassic Jill and Quinny the Quetzalcoatlus are your reviewers and they have some very strong opinions on this lacklustre book-end. https://youtu.be/VynmXs-uJjo A huge thank you to every single dino-riding badass joining in on the live-chat during the Twitch stream  this week and every week each Tuesday night...  If you haven't done so before join in our running and screaming, 7:30pm next Tuesday! Special love and thanks goes to those of you who have financially bolstered this podcast via our Ko-Fi jar and now also by subscribing on Twitch! Your generosity in helping us get closer to bringing our TPToA theme park to reality is always appreciated and all the survivors will thank you! If you feel inclined, "drop us a sub". The more subscriptions we get, the more Emotes you. Start working towards a "But Why" Emote! Every bit of your support helps us to keep the magic happening. Don't fret if you can't be there for the recording though as you can catch them on Youtube usually later that very night. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss them! WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK! Send in voicemails or emails with your opinions on this show (or any others) to info@theperiodictableofawesome.com Please make sure to join our social networks too!  We're on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TPToA/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/TPToA Facebook: www.facebook.com/PeriodicTableOfAwesome Instagram: www.instagram.com/theperiodictableofawesome/ https://youtu.be/DtQycgMD4HQ https://youtu.be/NkEU6fC_nhY https://youtu.be/C7kbVvpOGdQ

0:00:00 - Dino Experts Share Jurassic World Dominion Opinions, Talk Fan Theories & Elaborate On New Dinosaurs (SPOILERS) | #Podcast 0:00:31 - Two dinosaur experts give their opinions of the new Jurassic World Dominion movie 0:00:58 - Thoughts on Dr. Alan Grant still being in love with Dr. Ellie Sattler after all these years? 0:01:26 - Opinion of Colin Trevorrow as the director of the Jursassic World Dominion movie? 0:01:45 - What was the audience reaction like at the Jurassic World dominion world premiere? 0:03:33 - How would you rank Jurassic World Dominion against the other Jurassic Park movies? 0:04:43 - Were you sad that they did not bring back John Hammond's grandkids Tim and Lex from the original movie? 0:05:17 - Do you wish the Camp Cretaceous cast was brought to life on the big screen to intersect their story line with the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World casts? 0:06:23 - Fan Theory: The Ankylosaurus we saw in Jurassic World Dominion was the same Ankylosaurus named bumpy from Camp Cretaceous? 0:06:51 - Fan Theory: The kid that Grant told to be respectful of raptors in the original Jurassic Park grew up to be Owen Grady or Victor “Vic” Hoskins in Jurassic World 0:07:42 - Fan Theory: The Dilophosaurus didn't attack Nedry at first because with his hood on, he roughly looked like a potential mate 0:09:29 - Do you think any dinosaur could be trained to play fetch? 0:10:16 - What are your thoughts about how they brought the Barbasol can back into Jurassic Park Dominion? 0:12:08 - Is it possible in principle to retrieve dinosaur or Woolly Mammoth DNA? 0:13:57 - Is a 10,000 volt electric fence really enough of a deterrent to stop an angry Tyrannosaurus Rex? 0:15:20 - Could a Tyrannosaurus Rex jump or swim? 0:16:38 - Tell me everything you know about the Giganotosaurus 0:17:37 - Who would really win a fight between the Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex? 0:18:29 - How accurate do you think the Jurassic World Dominion prologue was? 0:19:11 - Can you put the time span between dinosaurs into perspective? 0:23:28 - Tell me everything you know about Therizinosaurus? 0:24:26 - Why would evolution have favorited Therizinosaurus's very long claws? 0:28:29 - What are some of the kind of things that paleontologists have learned about the way an animal lived, from its fossil record 0:29:27 - What was the smartest dinosaur? 0:33:20 - Did they make the Terrazzinosauris overly aggressive in the movie? 0:33:54 - Tell us everything you know about the Quetzalcoatlus? 0:39:15 - Are you surprised by how many dinosaurs ate fish but lived on land? 0:40:31 - Do you think the Spinosaurus could beat the Giganotosaurus? 0:42:35 - Tell me everything you know about the JP raptors? 0:45:28 - What's your opinion of the Pyroraptor design? 0:46:16 - What's the story with the naming of the Utahraptor and Steven Speilgburg? 0:47:49 - Who are the leading real paleontologists in the field right now? 0:49:01 - In what location are most of the dinosaurs we know of found? 0:50:39 - Do you think we should work the Nevada Dromaeosaur into a slot machine design? 0:52:04 - Let's talk about the Carnotaurus vs Allosaurus fight! 0:53:47 - Tell us everything about Pachycephalosaurus and Stygimoloch 0:55:29 - Why would evolution have favored a Sinoserotops single horn design? 0:56:21 - Tell us everything you know about Ankylosaurus 0:57:24 - Tell us everything you know about Dimetrodon 0:59:27 - Is it true that the Iguanodon is the first dinosaur ever found? 1:00:24 - Tell me about the Las Vegas Natural History Museum

If most people know one thing about pterosaurs (well one correct thing rather than them being flying dinosaurs or bird ancestors) it's that they got really big. At the top end they hit over 10 m in wingspan and probably over 250 kg, massively bigger than the largest flying birds (living or extinct). And all the real giants belonged to one group – the azhdarchids. These long-necked monsters were a real mystery for decades but a flurry of discoveries and research in recent years means we now have an excellent understanding of their ecology and weird proportions.   Links: Dave's blog post about the Canadian azhdarchid he (fairly) recently named https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/welcome-cryodrakon-a-gaint-canadian-azhdarchid-pterosaur/ Darren Naish's blog about the recent big work finally describing Quetzalcoatlus https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/12/8/the-quetz-monograph-lives

  A little bit of banter never hurt anyone.  A little bit of banter with an emphasis on dinosaurs however?! That has the potential to not only hurt but just absolutely wreck a guy.  We take a Quetzalcoatlus eye view of Apple+ Prehistoric Planet and let me tell you…its fantastic! Get some cool merch @ […] The post Geek Cast Live 9.404: Shrimp Fried Ayahuasca appeared first on Geek Cast Live.

  A little bit of banter never hurt anyone.  A little bit of banter with an emphasis on dinosaurs however?! That has the potential to not only hurt but just absolutely wreck a guy.  We take a Quetzalcoatlus eye view of Apple+ Prehistoric Planet and let me tell you…its fantastic! Get some cool merch @ […] The post Geek Cast Live 9.404: Shrimp Fried Ayahuasca appeared first on Geek Cast Live.

I'm back again with Matt Miles from the Creation Truth Foundation and in this episode we're going to talk about flying dinosaurs. Matt has done a lot of research on this topic, and he shares his findings with us. He believes that some of the flying dinosaurs could have glided through the sky using their wings, while others used powerful flapping motions to get into the air. References: Isaiah 30:6a and 14:29b (NASB) “Dinosaurs by Design” by Duane Gish Chronicles of Dinosauria: The History & Mystery of Dinosaurs and Man Dinosaurs of Eden: Did Adam and Noah live with Dinosaurs?, Ken Ham Links: Review the podcast! Support the show Check out the Creation Truth Foundation New episodes launch every other Wednesday at 10 am Mountain! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/truth-about-dinos/support

The early bird gets the worm or in the Quetzalcoatlus case, whenever it shows up!! This massive pterosaur is the largest known flying animal ever found and was named after the Aztec feathered god. How will this prehistoric flying reptile score amongst all the dinosaurs? Find out now!!Print off your free dinosaur review scorecard here: https://www.stompchomproar.com/post/the-dinosaur-review-for-kids-podcast

Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, may be Younger Than You Think. Let's break it down.The largest Jurassic pterosaur on record has been discovered in Scotland. Named "Dearc sgiathanach" in Gaelic, meaning "winged reptile from the sky" had a wingspan of more than eight feet long, which is shocking for a pterosaur from the Jurassic period. Pterosaurs, which are not dinosaurs, took flight and sported some of the largest winged creatures known to man. The Quetzalcoatlus is believed to have had a 36-foot-long wingspan, which is as large as a small, modern passenger aircraft.Interestingly, pterosaurs needed very lightweight, delicate bone walls to carry the massive creatures. Because of this, the bones were fragile, making it nearly impossible to fossilize. Paleontologists are shocked that this specimen made it long enough to be discovered.How about this for a plausible theory: pterosaurs and dinosaurs didn't live hundreds of millions or even millions of years ago. Perhaps the discovery of these fossils will draw more to the biblical model of creation - that birds of the air were created on day six of creation, just about 6,000 years ago. When we place the findings of these remains within that timeline, we have a good explanation as to their endurance.Furthermore, if these winged beasts are much younger than previously thought, it is entirely in the realm of possibility that the sightings of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster are legit. So if you're out on the Loch Ness and Nessie jumps in your boat - it's time for a new boat. Get more of The Daily Breakdown here:  https://breakdradio.com/category/the-daily-breakdown/Follow on all the socials here:  https://breakdradio.contactin.bio/

Quetzalcoatlus was one of the largest flying creatures ever discovered. Although it lived with the dinosaurs, it is not one. In this podcast you'll learn some amazing facts about this huge flying reptile from the Cretaceous period. 

Welcome to Curiosity Taught the Cat: Extinct Edition! It's our first extinct episode of the new year and we're kicking it off with a great one! This month's episode is about the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest creature to ever fly! Be sure to check out all of our socials as well as our Patreon which you can find here: https://anchor.fm/cttc If you're listening on a platform that allows ratings and reviews, we'd love if you left us one to give us some feedback and help us grow! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Biker draws a portrait within a GPS app; Paleontologist publish papers about pterosaurs; Spanish tree-sap contains a variety of dead creatures; Male swimmer breaks female swimming records; Italian government pays people to have babies; Researchers try to verify published experiments . . . and other stories reviewed during this December 20, 2021 broadcast of Answers News. - - - - - - - - - - - When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” - - - - - - - - - - - Genesis 30:1 Articles: A cyclist used GPS to draw a gigantic 66-mile-large mustachioed man in the streets of London https://notthebee.com/article/a-cyclist-used-gps-to-draw-a-gigantic-66-mile-large-mustachioed-man-in-the-streets-of-london Fleshing out the bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth's largest flier ever https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211208090029.htm Dinosaur-era swamp ecosystem preserved in amber https://www.newscientist.com/article/2300530-dinosaur-era-swamp-ecosystem-preserved-in-amber/ Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas smashes women's records, stokes outrage https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/5/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-smashes-womens-reco/ Facing a demographic crisis, Italy approves incentives to have babies https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/facing-a-demographic-crisis-italy-approves-incentives-to-have-babies/ A massive 8-year effort finds that much cancer research can't be replicated https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-biology-studies-research-replication-reproducibility Newly discovered fish songs demonstrate reef restoration success https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211208090105.htm Chile's congress approves same-sex marriages, adoptions https://www.chron.com/news/article/Chile-s-congress-approves-same-sex-marriages-16683542.php - - - - - - - - - - - Photo by: tunart Creative # 1172099580 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/answerstv/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/answerstv/support

We openen weer ons Bestiarium! In deze aflevering hebben we het over Quetzalcoatl, de slangen god en Quetzalcoatlus, een pterosauriër. Wie wint de strijd in ons tweede Bestiarium aflevering!• historie-en-mythologie@mail.com • https://twitter.com/HistorieMyth • https://www.instagram.com/historiemythologiepodcast/• merchandise • https://historie-mythologie.secure-decoration.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/historie-and-mythologie/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Heute im Klicker: Corona-Impfungen für Kinder, dem Wald geht es besser, ein riesiger Flugsaurier und ein Mops im Auto.

El Qutzalcoatlus fue uno de los animales voladores más grandes de toda la historia de la vida. Su descubrimiento hace 50 años generó una larga serie de estuudios y discusiones que aún continúan. Recientemente, una revista de prestigio publicó una serie de artículos integrados en una monografía que revela nuevos aspectos de la vida y el papel ecológico de este animal extraordinario nombrado en honor a una de las deidades más importantes del mundo nahua. Gracias por sus comentarios, interacciones, apoyo económico y suscripción. Escuche y descargue gratuitamente en MP3 2021/12/10 Quetzalcoatlus 50 Años Después. Gracias por su apoyo a El Explicador en: Patreon, https://www.patreon.com/elexplicador_enriqueganem, PayPal, elexplicadorpatrocinio@gmail.com, SoundCloud, https://soundcloud.com/el-explicador, Spotify, https://open.spotify.com/show/01PwWfs1wV9JrXWGQ2MrbY, iTunes, https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/el-explicador-sitio-oficial/id1562019070 y YouTube, https://youtube.com/c/ElExplicadorSitioOficial. Twitter @enrique_ganem. Lo invitamos a suscribirse a estos canales para recibir avisos de nuestras publicaciones y a visitar nuestra página http://www.elexplicador.net. En el título de nuestros trabajos aparece la fecha año/mes/día de grabación, lo que facilita su consulta cronológica, ya sabe usted que el conocimiento cambia a lo largo del tiempo. Siempre leemos sus comentarios, muchas veces no tenemos tiempo para reponder a cada uno personalmente pero todos son leídos y tomados en cuenta. Este es un espacio de divulgación científica en el que nos interesa informar de forma clara y amena, que le invite a Ud. a investigar sobre los temas tratados y a que Ud. forme su propia opinión. Serán borrados todos los comentarios que promuevan la desinformación, charlatanería, odio, bullying, violencia verbal o incluyan enlaces a páginas que no sean de revistas científicas arbitradas, que sean ofensivos hacia cualquier persona o promuevan alguna tendencia política o religiosa ya sea en el comentario o en la fotografía de perfil. Aclaramos que no somos apolíticos, nos reservamos el derecho de no expresar nuestra opinión política, ya que éste es un canal cuya finalidad es la divulgación científica. ¡Gracias por su preferencia!

Adam has an insightful conversation with Kennan Wood about his thirty years as a fishing guide and how it helped connect him with nature, the worst and best customers he dealt with, and the unimaginable horrors that were a hunting Quetzalcoatlus and Megalodon.

This week Fin tells his mum all about the Quetzalcoatlus

This week we welcome friend of the podcast and sea lion trainer, Leitza, to the show as guest host. We also bust some penguin based myths, and Gareth tells us all about the prehistoric giant terror of the skies: Quetzalcoatlus. The cupboard is open, come on in!

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Travel back to the Jurassic with Encyclopedia Adam and learn about three awesome pterosaurs: Pterodactylus, Pteranadon, and Quetzalcoatlus!Awesome facts for kids by a kid! Eight-year-old Adam is an expert in dinosaurs and can't wait to travel back with you to this cool time period!

No dinosaurs this week! Shock, horror! It was always going to happen sooner or later as Dave does a lot of work on pterosaurs as well as on dinosaurs and we’ve had some specific requests for a pterosaur episode so here we go (and they’ll return again soon we’re sure). These flying reptiles are too often just window dressing in the background of pictures of dinosaurs but they are their own distinct evolutionary group with a fascinating array of weird features and produced the largest flying animals of all time with wingspans over 10 m. The week we make a delayed welcome to a first guest of the series and it is Dr Adam Rutherford, geneticist, author and presenter and general all round science nerd. He wants to know how the sex of dinosaur embryos was determined but mostly we end up talking about Star Wars Easter eggs. Links: This is a website Dave and a group of fellow pterosaur researchers set up as a one stop-shop for all things pterosaur. http://pterosaur.net An essay on the giant azhdarchids by palaeontologist Mark Witton. It’s a little old so some things have updated but it’s fundamentally a great introduction to them https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiM4Mr__rHuAhUSmVwKHaymCDoQFjACegQIAhAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markwitton.com%2Fdownload%2Fi%2Fmark_dl%2Fu%2F4009119796%2F4549073080%2FWitton%25202007%2520-%2520Azhdarchids.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0WICVGKJd7VlGpFB3Uoanx A link to Dave’s recent paper suggesting baby pterosaurs were flying: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/let.12391 And here’s the links for the Star Wars nerdery: https://carnegiemnh.org/dippy-in-star-wars/ https://svpow.com/2013/01/21/confirmed-the-umbraran-starfighter-is-an-apatosaurus-cervical/ Adam Rutherford's new book (that Iszi got for Xmas) is called How To Argue With a Racist paperback out Feb 4th 

Join host Bri for the long awaited first episode of NeoJurassic. We'll be exploring the fascinating world of pterosaurs with paleontologist & biomechanist Dr. Mike Habib with a speculative glimpse (2:40 - 10:05) into a world in which today's tech gods resurrect quetzalcoatlus for the corporate corporate synergy/bravado/lolz. Also paleoartist & animator, Cameron Clow (@CamTheCowboyMan) shares his Jurassic Fantasies.

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria. They soared our ancient skies during most of the Mesozoic — from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago). By the end of the Cretaceous, they had grown to giants and one of their brethren, Quetzalcoatlus, a member of the family Azhdarchidae, boasts being the largest known flying animal that ever lived. They were the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. We divide their lineage into two major types: basal pterosaurs and pterodactyloids. Basal pterosaurs (also called 'non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs' or ‘rhamphorhynchoids') were smaller animals with fully toothed jaws and long tails. Their wide wing membranes connected to their hind legs. This would have allowed them some manoeuvrability on the ground, but with an awkward sprawling posture. They were better climbers with flexible joint anatomy and strong claws. Basal pterosaurs preferred to dine on insects and small vertebrates. Later pterosaurs (pterodactyloids) evolved many sizes, shapes, and lifestyles. Pterodactlyoids had narrower wings with free hind limbs, highly reduced tails, and long necks with large heads. On the ground, pterodactyloids walked better than their earlier counterparts, manoeuvring all four limbs smoothly with an upright posture. They walked standing plantigrade on the hind feet and folding the wing finger upward to walk on the three-fingered "hand." These later pterosaurs were more nimble. They could take off from the ground, run and wade and swim. Their jaws had horny beaks and some of these later groups lacked the teeth of earlier lineages. Some groups developed elaborate head crests that were likely used to attract mates' sexy-pterosaur style.

Morgan is so excited to teach you about this pterosaur that was probably the largest flying animal to ever exist!

This episode is all about the wondrous Quetzalcoatlus, arguably the largest flying animal of all time. This giant reptile had a wingspan up to 36 feet and would have stood 17 feet tall! We dive into all things Quetzalcoatlus including its namesake, the Mesoamerican deity, Quetzalcoatl! Plus our round of Nerd News: Alex (Ballistic feeding in ancient amphibian): https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/frogs-possibly-got-their-freaky-tongues-from-albies Katie (Women were hunters too in prehistoric South America): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/9000-year-old-big-game-hunter-peru-prompts-questions-about-hunter-gatherer-gender-roles-180976218/ As always, like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/squabblingsquibs And follow us on Twitter: @squibsquabbles This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.31.354605v1?rss=1 Authors: Goto, Y., Yoda, K., Weimerskirch, H., Sato, K. Abstract: Extinct large volant birds and pterosaurs are thought to have used wind dependent soaring flight, similar to modern large birds. There are two types of soaring: thermal soaring, used by condors and frigatebirds, which involves the use of updrafts to ascend and then glide horizontally; and dynamic soaring, used by albatrosses, which involves the use of differences in wind speed with height above the sea surface. However, it is controversial which soaring styles were used by extinct species. In this study, we used aerodynamic models to comprehensively quantify and compare the soaring performances and wind conditions required for soaring in two of the largest extinct bird species, Pelagornis sandersi and Argentavis magnificens (6-7 m wingspans), two pterosaur species, Pteranodon (6 m wingspan) and Quetzalcoatlus (10 m wingspans), and extant soaring birds. For dynamic soaring, we quantified how fast the animal could fly and how fast it could fly upwind. For thermal soaring, we quantified the animal's sinking speed circling in a thermal at a given radius and how far it could glide losing a given height. Consistently with previous studies, our results suggest that Pteranodon and Argentavis used thermal soaring. Conversely, the results suggest that Quetzalcoatlus, previously thought to have used thermal soaring, was less able to ascend in updrafts than extant birds, and Pelagornis sandersi, previously thought to have used dynamic soaring, actually used thermal soaring. Our results demonstrate the need for a comprehensive assessment of performance and required wind conditions when estimating soaring styles of extinct flying species. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Join us this week as we talk about the exciting news involving possible life on Venus! We touch on a Quetzalcoatlus sighting, and also talk about dark matter, plus lots more!

(image source: https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Ben O'Regan discuss Quetzalcoatlus, the pterosaur that stood as tall as a giraffe when on the ground, which is freaking insane. From the Late Cretaceous, this 44-foot-wingspan azhdarchid could have flown for tens of thousands of miles and picked up small dinosaurs with its beak. Seriously, everything about this thing seems too big to be real. It shouldn't exist. I'm putting my foot down, prehistory! You've gone too far. Want to further support the show? Sign up to our Patreon for exclusive bonus content here. Also, you can purchase Matthew Donald's dinosaur book "Megazoic" on Amazon by clicking here, its sequel "Megazoic: The Primeval Power" by clicking here, its third installment "Megazoic: The Hunted Ones" by clicking here, or its final installment "Megazoic: An Era's End" by clicking here. 

Join us in this next episode as we travel back in history to learn about the Chu Silk Manuscript, discuss the short novel the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, learn about the Quetzalcoatlus the largest flying creature, explore tSubterranean rivers, and finish the episode on a historic conference.

This week we're talking about the quetzalcoatlus, a giraffe-sized, bat-like pterosaur with a wingspan the size of a bus! Tune in to find out how these humongous creatures managed to stay in the air and what they might have used their huge beaks for. Beyond Blathers is hosted and produced by Olivia deBourcier and Sofia Osborne, with art by Olivia deBourcier and music by Max Hoosier. This podcast is not associated with Animal Crossing or Nintendo, we just love this game!

Facts About Quetzalcoatlus! Credits: Executive Producer: Chris Krimitsos Voice: Jimmy Murray "Upbeat Forever", "Winner Winner!" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Facts from Wikipedia Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

34. Quetzalcoatlus Northropi & Vacations: Big Gay NunsIn this episode of Secret Dinosaur Cult, we discuss the Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, going on holiday, Catholic guilt, living in cabins, travel anxiety, British caravan holidays, and as always, try and fill our daddy holes.Hosted by Sofie Hagen and Jodie Mitchell.Produced by Justine McNichol for Dying Alone Ltd.Jingle by Harriet Braine.Photo by Gavin Smart.Logo by Annaliese Nappa.Recorded at Aces & Eights, LondonFollow Secret Dinosaur Cult:Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretdinocultInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/secretdinosaurcult/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecretDinosaurCult/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tokrat smo strupeni s kačami, tranzitivno sklepamo z osami, plezamo s polži in letimo s Quetzal, s Quetzllllcotl, s Quetzalcoatlus-om. #Metamorfoza OPIS ODDAJE Novice:...

Send us questions to answer on the show at: absurdhypotheticals@gmail.comOn this episode of Absurd Hypotheticals, Marcus Lehner, Chris Yee, and Ben Storms answer these very important questions:What if all plants grew as fast as bamboo?What if you had a pet dinosaur?Time Stamps[00:00:36] Garfield Phones[00:06:39] Fast Plants: Chris’s Answer - Grass[00:14:32] Fast Plants: Ben’s Answer - Farming[00:23:26] Fast Plants: Marcus’s Answer - Which Plants Thrive?[00:29:21] Middle of the Podcast Break[00:30:47] Dinosaurs: Ben’s Answer - Dreadnoughtus[00:40:14] Dinosaurs: Marcus’s Answer - Gigantoraptor and Quetzalcoatlus[00:52:20] Dinosaurs: Chris’s Answer - Therizinosaurus[01:00:17] OutroJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/absurdhypothetipalsTwitter: @absurdhype

Support SB and Access Beanus Content at https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans This little buddy, you really just have to see for yourself. Bridgett tells the guys about an animal so improbably they both immediately go violently insane. It's a hoot! Art by the Small Beans community. Wicked Guitar Riff by Abe Epperson.

From the Aztec temples of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the 1980s monster film “Q: The Winged Serpent,” the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl soars high over the human imagination. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the history of this winged wonder -- as well as the prehistoric Quetzalcoatlus named after the ancient Lord of the Dawn.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: Is It Safe to Eat Food That Has Freezer Burn? Quetzalcoatlus Was a Flying Reptile the Size of a Giraffe Scientists Found a Technique That Can Help You Learn Skills Twice as Fast Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to learn something new every day withCody Gough andAshley Hamer. Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In which I butcher more pronounciation, prepare you for a test, and once again commit blaphsomy. Seriously, I'm not getting into heaven.   Full transcript available: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VBGt98YmR1evY1dMsLrP0EheLViL5czfDjQiQ0rAUik/edit?usp=sharing

This week we're going to learn about some strange snakes. Snakes in the air! Snakes in the water! Snakes on a pla--NO I am not going there Thanks to sirfinnhayes and Mackin for the topic suggestions! Mackin is host of the podcast Species, which you should listen to. A golden tree snake: A snake flying, or rather gliding with style: Northern water snake (left) and water moccasin (right). Note the head and neck differences: The yellow sea snake (Hydrophis spiralis): Belcher's sea snake. Have I mentioned how much I love stripey animals? I do love them, I do: Horned viper. Do not step: The Vietnamese longnosed snake. I TOOK THESE PHOTOS MYSELF AT HELSINKI ZOO! The spiny bush viper. I'm sorry, all other snakes, this one is now my favorite: A rattlesnake showing off its rattle: The spider-tailed horned viper: LOOKIT THAT SPIDER TAIL: Tsuchinoko real: Okay that is just way too many pictures. Show Transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This week we’re going to find out about some strange snakes. This is a request from two different people, sirfinnhayes and Macken of the podcast Species. Sirfinnhayes is also the person who corrected my incomplete information on the definition of a subspecies, so thank you! Podbean still won’t let me reply to comments, but at least I can see who sent them now. If you don’t already listen to the Species podcast, I highly recommend it. It’s new, family friendly, and really interesting. The first episode of Species I listened to was about flying snakes, and I was already wondering if I could sneak in an episode of my own about flying snakes or if that would be really obvious and not cool, when the host, Macken, contacted me and said I ought to do an episode on flying snakes. Now I don’t have to feel guilty for copying! So let’s start with flying snakes. You may be picturing Quetzalcoatl, the feathered snake god of the Aztecs. But flesh and blood flying snakes, as opposed to divine ones, don’t have wings or feathers. The god did lend his name to one of the biggest flying reptiles ever known, by the way, and even though Quetzalcoatlus isn’t a snake, I have to tell you about it. It was a type of pterosaur that lived around 68 million years ago, and its wingspan was almost 40 feet, or 12 meters. It could probably fly extremely fast and far, but spent most of its time hunting small dinosaurs and other animals on land like a monster stork. We’re not three minutes into this episode and I’m already off topic. Back to flying snakes. Flying snakes don’t really fly, they glide, but they’re very good at it. There are five species of flying snake, all from India and the Indonesian archipelago. The longest is the golden tree snake that can grow four feet long, or a little over 1.2 meters. All flying snakes are venomous, but their venom is weak and not dangerous to humans. Besides, you’re not likely to encounter a flying snake since they spend most of their time far up in the rainforest tree canopy chasing small animals. So how does such a slender snake glide? When a flying snake drops off a branch to glide to another, it flattens its body, actually pushing its ribs apart to make a broader surface to catch the air. As Macken describes it, when gliding, its body somewhat resembles the shape of a long, thin Frisbee. It wriggles as it glides, pointing its head in the direction it wants to go. It can even change direction midair if necessary. If some snakes can fly, surely some snakes can swim, right? Definitely! Water snakes are actually pretty common. When I was a kid, everyone panicked whenever they saw a snake in the lake or a creek where we were always playing. We thought all water snakes were venomous water moccasins, but as I found out much later, water moccasins don’t even live in East Tennessee. Most freshwater snakes are harmless,

Flying Dinosaurs as Tall as Giraffes If you're a regular listener of this podcast, then you know that I love dinosaurs. Living in Alberta is the perfect mix because we have one of the best landscapes for finding dino remains and there are new discoveries happening all the time. The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller is one of the leading research centres in the world and for many visitors to Alberta, it is there first real opportunity to look at some of the most unique fossils that have been placed on display. One of their most recent exhibits shows the most well preserved dinosaur ever found, a Nodosaur, essentially an armoured dinosaur similar to the more well known Ankylosaurs. You can learn more about it in episode 30 at www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep030. Now comes an even stranger story from the Royal Tyrell Museum that has to do with those strange flying dinosaurs known as pterosaurs. These were formidable creatures, in some cases being as tall as a modern giraffe but potentially soaring on wingspans similar to airplanes. No creature, before or since has ever been a more fearsome presence soaring overhead. Donald Henderson is the curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrell, and he came across an artist's rendering of the largest of pterosaurs, Arambourgiania philadelphiae, placed next to, and as tall as, a giraffe. The giraffe weighs in at 1,500 kg but a similarly sized pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, was thought to weigh far far less, perhaps as little as 70 kg. For Henderson, he felt that a pterosaur that tall had to weigh far more than 70 kg, and he did his own math and came up with an estimate of some 550 kg. This immense weight also meant that it was highly unlikely that the Arambourgiania could fly at all. He concluded that, like penguins, it had likely evolved to be flightless. A bird of this mass would have needed incredible muscle strength in order to take to the air. Based on his research, he was clipping its wings and grounding it. Well his paper got little response from fellow researchers…oh wait, it was like he'd said something crazy like pterosaurs can't fly. Well the opposition to his research was not long in coming. Mark Witton is one of the most recognized authorities on pterosaurs, and it was his rendering that Henderson had encountered that started this whole process. As he was quoted in a recent interview in the publication Inverse: “There’s a handful of people who sort of dip in and out of pterosaurs, who have suggested that they can’t fly, but most people who work on pterosaurs have never really questioned this. And that’s not in the sense of, they’ve not ever wondered it, but they’ve never seen any reason to think it’s a good hypothesis.” When Witton looked at the fossil physiology, his estimate showed these pterosaurs to be less than half of Henderson's estimate, closer to 250 kg. Pterosaurs had many of the same adaptations that modern-day birds have to help them fly. They had small torsos, hollow bones, and interior air sacs. All of these things combined to dramatically reduce their weight specifically to enable the ability to fly. As Witton put it: “All the ducks line up in a row, and it’s actually far more complicated for us to think of a reason why they’re not flying,” Working with Witton to refute Henderson's estimate was paleontologist Michael Habib. He is a recognized expert on the biomechanics of pterosaur flight but has now partnered with Henderson to take a renewed look at the Quetzalcoatlus based on new skeletal reconstructions. Their work has led Habib to the conclusion that they may have weighed far more than he previously thought, although not as big as Henderson's original estimate. Despite this, he's still two thumbs up on flight. I love science. The proper scientific method forces researchers to constantly challenge established research in order to test, verify and update previous peer-reviewed papers. Good research should be repeatable if it is to be proven correct. Good scientists embrace dissent and Habib and Henderson's recent work proves this. The thought of these massive predatory birds flying around, seeing small tyrannosaurs as a light snack is a visual that even the producers of Jurassic Park couldn't have conceived. As these two scientists continue their research it seems that a middle ground may be appearing. Habib believes that these pterosaurs did still fly, but that some of the largest ones may have been mostly ground dwelling but that the young would have flown immediately since the eggs were not tended by their parents. Young pterosaurs that lingered were essentially dinner for larger dinosaurs. The model that's emerging has these giant pterosaurs flying when they were young, and spending more time on terra firma as their large size made it harder to fly but also made them large enough that they didn't have to worry about becoming a meal for tyrannosaurs. They may have still been capable of short flights, perhaps to move between prime hunting grounds. Conversely, they may have become completely terrestrial as they aged. Comparing the bones of these giants to smaller pterosaurs, the bones show all the same adaptations to flight that their smaller relatives display. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…well you get the idea. Really, what is needed is an complete fossil. Pterosaur fossils are rare simply because the bones are so delicate that they rarely are preserved in the fossil record. Thinking of such huge creatures soaring overhead would have been a truly magical thing to see - all from the safety of a pterosaur proof bunker of course. Next up…loving the mountains to death. Loving the Mountains to Death As the 2017 tourism season begins to wane, This is a good time to take stock of what we have learned from the growing influx of tourists and how we can better manage the parks that we all love so that our grandchildren's grandchildren will be able to experience the same wonders that we do. Ideally, we could create a world in which the landscape they visit is even better than it is today, with more ecological integrity and less personal self-interest. Seeing the huge crowds at many mountain viewpoints these days makes me sad. When you can't take a photo without people crawling over railings and swarming over the very scene that has brought you soooo far to photograph. If you've gotten to the point where you really believe, in the pit of your stomach, that something's gotta give, then you're in good company. Many, many local people, people like me that earn their entire income from tourism, have come to the same conclusion. And we're not alone. Parks across Canada and the US are collapsing under their popularity and run the risk of being loved to death. Parks like Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Yosemite, and Great Smokey Mountains in the US are feeling the same pressures that parks like Banff, Jasper, Yoho, and Kootenay are. Visit Peyto Lake in Banff or the Natural Bridge in Yoho, and you can't even take a photo without clowns going out of the designated viewing areas to do selfies in areas that are either sensitive to disturbance or downright dangerous. If we look at Banff and Jasper National Parks, we can see time and time again where the Harper Government allowed developments that have no place in a national park to move forward. These include developments like the Glacier Skywalk at the Columbia Icefields, new 'roofed accommodation' at Maligne Lake in Jasper, glamping (glamorous camping) sites in Two Jack Lake in Banff, and even a paved bike path from Jasper to the Columbia Icefields through critical habitat for endangered caribou. Thankfully, this last development is currently on hold due to the strong negative public reaction. The Harper years were characterized by budget cuts for classic backcountry trail networks and over-emphasis on getting more cars through the park gates. $8/person, kaching, thank you very much…next! This creates a situation where 95% of the visitors see the same 2% of the park, the paved corridors. As locations like Moraine Lake and Lake Louise collapse under sheer numbers and parking lots and feeder roads clog up due to traffic, what kind of experience are visitors to the area getting? What kind of image is it giving the mountain national parks? What do we do when people flood to sites like TripAdvisor to say: "don't go to Banff, it's overrun, why not go to…?" In a Globe and Mail article, former Banff Park Superintendent Kevin Van Tighem stated that Canada's National Parks are being used merely as: "raw material to be commodified into a bundle of Disneyesque visitor attractions and marketing packages." It is as if "nature was no longer enough" Parks Canada's mandate, and I've harped on this time and again on this podcast, is that parks: "shall be maintained and made use of so as to leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." More importantly, the role of the federal minister of parks shall be the: "maintenance or restoration of ecological integrity, through the protection of natural resources and natural processes." I don't know anyone, either within parks or within the communities that serve to provide the services to park visitors that feels that this goal is even being attempted. Even the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has made some huge blunders. Seriously…free park passes! I can guarantee that nobody working in the mountain national parks thought this was a good idea. While the numbers aren't in yet, I'm betting that we added another half a million visitors to an already overburdened landscape. They could have said: "here are 10 parks that are underutilized and so we're going to offer free access to them to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday", but alas no, the gates were tossed wide open. I'll give Justin this one giant oops. He did send out an intergovernmental panel to the mountain parks last year to see how people living and working in the parks felt about the current park management. They got an earful. If you'd like to learn more about the panel, check out episode 26 at www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep026. Parks Canada received failing marks for its lack of transparency in its decision making process. Projects like the Glacier Skywalk in Jasper were approved despite overwhelming negative feedback. The panel couldn't find any logic in the way decisions within the organization were being made at the highest levels. Again, I stand with the parks employees working locally, because they are merely the receiver of directives from on high and to a man (or woman), most would agree that developments like this should never have been approved. Has Justin done better than Harper? Somewhat. He allowed all government scientists across the nation to publish their research, whether or not it was supportive of current government goals. He also immediately removed the muzzle that the Harper government had put on park wardens from speaking to the media. As a guide, I can't do my job without the amazing work being done by park wardens and scientists. The wardens of the mountain national parks are responsible for incredible research into the wildlife and ecosystems that are critical to these mountain landscapes. If I'm critical of something that Parks Canada approves, it is often because of the good science their rank and file perform on a daily basis has helped to contradict the justification for those approvals. When discussing another national park development, Van Tighem stated: "Rules? We don't actually have those anymore, so what did you have in mind as a money-making idea for our park? We'll dress it up in heritage language and funky marketing-speak to persuade ourselves it's good for national parks, and then you can have at 'er." I'll leave a link to the Globe and Mail article in the show notes a mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep044. (https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-disneyfication-of-canadas-national-parks/article28359840/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile) Tourism doesn't have to mean sacrificing the very thing that you're trying to showcase. There has to be another way. Thankfully, we don't have to muddle our way through the challenges of excess alone. We can look to other jurisdictions that are also doing some muddling of their own. One of those is Yellowstone. Like the mountain national parks, they are drowning in visitors and seeing their most iconic locations swamped with an ocean of tourists. One of the things that is hampering any discussion into limiting visitors has to do with the simple fact that nobody wants to be the guy (or girl) that says: "No, you can't visit Lake Louise" Most of the focus over the past decade has been to bring more and more and more and more visitors. I think anyone visiting these sites would agree that this hasn't worked. There is an inverse relationship between the number of visitors and the visitor's experience. The busier a site becomes, there will be a threshold where the visitor experience begins to suffer. Someone has to say the word! NO! I will say that things have been much better this year. Because of the Canada 150th, Parks put out an army of people working for an amazing company, ATS Traffic, that have done an impressive job reducing the amount of vehicles in places like Lake Louise and Moraine Lake this summer. In past years, I have had days where it's taken me two and a half hours to drive the 3 or 4 km between the village of Lake Louise and the actual lake. That has not happened this year at all, mainly because of the amazing work being done by ATS Traffic. The traffic control has been supplemented by the shuttle service that the park has sponsored this summer. There are free shuttles everywhere, and they have been working. I've spoken numerous times to the staff organizing the shuttles to Lake Louise from the Overflow Campground to the east of the village along the Trans Canada Highway. They have been doing impressive numbers, in the range of 2,000 plus people on busy days. That's some 1,000 cars or so that are NOT trying to drive to Lake Louise. Moraine Lake has been even more dramatic. In past years, there would be cars parked for kilometres along the all too narrow road. It made the road almost impossible for buses or wide vehicles to navigate. This year, the road has essentially been closed to cars by 9 am. The road and associated parking area can only accommodate so many cars. When the lots are full, the road is closed. Has that had any impacts on the shoreline of Lake Louise and Moraine Lake? It's been impressive. Closing the roads and parking areas when they reach a capacity, and preventing miles and miles of roadside parking means that there are fewer people at the actual sites. This means that the people that did arrive early enough presumably are having a much better experience. What about those that didn't? Those are the visitors that will leave the park with a negative experience. I've met them. I've walked past traffic jams and had people ask why they can't get to Lake Louise. The fact that it was simply too busy did not compute when they had traveled all the way from Toronto to see it. The traffic management is a key first step to creating a balance between expectation and experience. As a guide, I've been pushing my groups ever earlier in the morning to try to manage the experience they will have when they arrive. Unfortunately, hotels, will only make breakfasts available at certain times, so you can't always be 'early enough'. One thing that is an unknown at this point is whether ATS traffic will be hired to do the same job next year. So many things were tied to the funding for Canada 150, that the funds that are paying for their critical work may only be a one-time deal. If that is the case, then we go back to endless traffic jams again next year. If you applaud the work done by these mountain heroes this year, then be sure to let your elected officials know that we need this to be the new norm. There is no going back. In addition to traffic management, we also saw extensive parking restrictions implemented in 2017. Long sections of road approaching places like Johnston Canyon and Moraine Lake are now tow away zones with parking barriers. Managing traffic and parking are two of the critical pillars towards capacity management, but how do we manage the visitor experience? What we need to do for the long-term is to sit down, and create a comprehensive visitor experience plan. What do we, as tourism professionals, park managers, and stakeholders want people to say about our destinations when they leave? How do we create that experience? The only way that can happen is if we place a finite limit on the number of people that can visit certain locations. It's not too late to decide the kind of destination that we want to be when we grow up. I like to think that we're in the adolescence of our role as keepers of the ecological jewels of the mountain landscape. We started slowly some 130 years ago. We marketed our butts off to try to carve our little piece of the world tourism market. We coerced, cajoled and click baited until the dreams of many hoteliers, restaurants, gift shops and tour companies were given the taste of success. Like a drug addict, that first taste is always free. Twenty years ago, I believed it was time to stop building hotels. The number of hotel rooms provide a natural limit to the number of visitors to a destination. We are still building hotels like a drunken sailor. Destination Marketing organizations like Banff Lake Louise Tourism and Travel Alberta are still singing the siren song of more, more, more. However we're now at a tipping point. Can we learn anything from this summer that can help us to start to navigate towards a better, more sustainable future? I think we can. I know we can! This year we managed traffic. Now we need to envision a future where the experience is managed in such a way that the traffic is pre-managed for us. There is only one way - quotas. Fabulous destinations around the world have had to deal with these questions decades ago. We need to look at their examples. Did people stop going when they created quotas? Or did they plan their trips in such a way to make sure they had the experiences they saw in their Lonely Planet guide? In Banff National Park, we have four places that jump to the top of the list, in order of priority 1. Moraine Lake 2. Johnston Canyon 3. Lake Louise 4. Sulphur Mountain Gondola Three of the four are a challenge because they are at the end of one-way-in and one-way-out roads that back up very quickly. Johnston Canyon is simply a victim of its incredible popularity. The list contains four of the most popular destinations in Banff. We can add Emerald Lake In Yoho to this list, along with Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper Are limits bad? Hockey games have them. There are only so many seats at the stadium. We are surrounded by limits, but when it comes to a natural feature, the prevailing wisdom is to squeeze as many people and cars as possible. More, more, more! Well Lake Louise, is not a dairy cow. We can't keep squeezing the unique landscape. The environment around Lake Louise also contains the highest concentration of breeding female grizzlies in the central Rockies. There is something in that landscape that is just a good place to raise a family if you're a grizzly bear. OK. Here's my pitch. How do we create finite limits? For many sites, we create parking lots designed to collect visitors that are NOT at the destination. We make sure that shuttle buses can take them to the site with minimal inconvenience. Do you want to visit Lake Louise? Click this link to book your shuttle bus. The shuttle system this year has been awesome in showing that this works. Here's how I would supercharge it. Take away all public parking at Lake Louise, or Sulphur Mountain, or Moraine Lake. Those lots are for tour and shuttle buses only, and the tour buses would also be limited. If shutting parking down is too hard a sell, than create a financial disincentive to park at the destination. The option of a free shuttle versus a $20 parking fee will likely help to shift the trend towards free, scheduled shuttles and away from driving directly to the destination. If a parking rate can be found that provides a sufficient disincentive to driving but still helps to fund the resource, I'm all for that. One scenario might be that there are 200 parking spots for Lake Louise and they cost $10 or $40. What will the market bear? Ideally though, most of the visitors should arrive on shuttle or tour buses. One of the final things I would like to see the mountain parks do is to try to implement more active restrictions to people moving beyond the designated visitor corridors and start climbing over barriers to get ever closer to the view. . We can't stop determined visitors from forcing their way beyond barriers to do their worst, but we can create better discouragement barriers. As Canadians, we have perhaps been too polite. In places like Peyto Lake, it would not be too hard to create a pretty convincible barrier to prevent tourists from swarming the cliff below the public viewpoint. The viewpoint is there because it's designed to reduce the impact on this lower cliff. Alternatively, the park could extend the viewpoint to include this lower outcrop. The most important thing is to manage the visitor experience while also managing the visitor. A recent article on Yellowstone National Park in the publication Mountain Journal, really has had me thinking more about this issue. So far in this story, I focused on simple human use management to address the issue of ecological integrity. If the mountain national parks have to look anywhere for an example, the first national park in the world might be a great place to start. This article, penned by long-time Yellowstone advocate Todd Wilkinson really ties into my philosophy of how we might combine a better visitor experience with better ecological integrity within the mountain park landscape. One of Wilkinson's key concepts requires "saying yes to saying no". We have a finite limit on the number of people that can visit Old Faithful on a given day. Get your permit here! His article contains some pretty inflammatory statements, but I agree with them all. One of the most challenging for a community like Banff is: "The irony, of course, is that some of the biggest financial beneficiaries of the dividends of conservation are people who, for their own ideological reasons and motivations of rational self-interest, are today opposed to limits.  It’s probably fair to say that most possess no malicious intent, but the needs of wildlife, the underpinnings of what enables biological diversity to thrive, do not register with them." Wilkinson also states: "There is no example on Earth where conservation of nature, over time, has not generated huge ecological, economic, social, cultural, and spiritual benefits." Did you say economic benefits? Yellowstone and its surrounding landscapes are a billion dollar a year industry. Like our mountain parks, Yellowstone has one word that it has yet to utter: NO. According to Wilkinson: "We live in times, which some commentators describe as America’s new regression back to adolescence, where it is not fashionable to ever say no.  It is an age when some claim that natural landscapes have no limits for the amount and intensity of human activity that can occur on them without serious ecological harm being done. We live in a time of climate change and population growth in which users of landscapes (for profit, recreation or lifestyle) conclude that unless they can actually see impacts being caused by their own actions or by the larger acumulating wave of human presence, such impacts, therefore, do not exist. He sees three big challenges that parks like Yellowstone, and by extension, Banff face: • The deepening impacts of climate change and what they predict, especially where water in the arid west is concerned. • The deepening inexorable impacts of human growth (both an unprecedented rise in people migrating to live in the Greater Yellowstone from other nature deprived areas, and accompanied by a somewhat related surge in unprecedented numbers of visitors and recreationists to public lands. • The inability or reluctance of land management agencies to see the writing on the wall. Yellowstone, unlike Banff, still hosts every major mammal and bird species that was there before the arrival of the Europeans. Banff gets points for the 2017 reintroduction of wild bison back to the park, but loses points because it was not able to keep its northern mountain caribou herd. Now Jasper's remaining caribou are also at serious risk of vanishing. Wilkonsin states: "The 22.5-million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is actually pretty small. Functionally, it will be made ever smaller, squeezed by climate change altering its ecological carrying capacity because of less winter snowpack, hotter and drier conditions, and further fragmented by a doubling or tripling of the human population likely to occur in just two human generations." I know that for me, this could just as easily be said about the Bow River Valley. Combine growth without proper cumulative impact assessments, with vast increases in visitation, and we can see real challenges in our future. According to Wilkinson: "If we don’t get the “growth” component of Greater Yellowstone addressed, experts have told me, it won’t matter how fond we are of thinking about ecological processes playing out at the landscape level, like terrestrial migrations of ungulates, protecting wide-ranging species like grizzly bears, wolverines and elk that need escape cover free of intensive human intrusion." These are problems that are apparent throughout the entire Mountain National Park and surrounding areas. Canmore is in the middle of the battle to protect continentally significant wildlife corridors. If we don't get this right, nothing else matters. We, as a community, need to continue to fight to make sure that big development does not get to compromise critical connecting routes that are a key component of the much larger Rocky Mountain ecosystem. Even now, the town of Canmore is not only negotiating wildlife corridors, but developing within metres of them. The new bike trail being designed adjacent to Quarry Lake is a folly that the town cannot afford. Already, bears like 148 are being removed from the landscape for spending time on corridors dedicated to their movement. Having more and more and more development encroaching on these corridors will lead to a continued eroding of the ecological viability of the town of Canmore corridors - and maybe that's exactly what development focused mayors like John Borrowman want. Once the corridor is gone, he can promote the valley to his heart's content. Canmore has an election coming up. Make a better decision this time Canmore! You may not have many more chances. One advantage that Canada has over Yellowstone at the moment is that we are no longer afraid of science. We can look to great research being done within our parks that shows that the current trends are simply unsustainable. Wilkinson quotes Thomas Roffe, the former National Chief of wildlife health for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: “Science doesn’t define what the proper thing to do is. Science helps to define what the conditions will be if you choose one vision or another. Science will help you understand what the advantages or disadvantages are to your perspective. But it doesn’t tell you what’s right or what’s wrong.” We have the science. We can all see the changes. What are we going to do? Will we make the right choice? And with that, it's time to wrap this episode up. If you'd like to hit me up personally, you can email me at info@wardcameron.com or send me a message on Twitter @wardcameron. Ward Cameron Enterprises is your source for step-on and hiking guides as well as wildlife biology safaris, snowshoe animal tracking and corporate speaking programs. We've been sharing the stories behind the scenery for more than 30 years and we can help to make sure your visit to the Rockies is one that you'll be talking about for years. You can visit our website at www.WardCameron.com for more details. And with that said, the rain has thankfully come and now stopped so it's time to go hiking. I'll talk to you next week.

Veremos en acción al nautilus, un fósil viviente y conoceremos a quetzalcoatlus, el dinosaurio volador.

Palaeontology is more than just going out into the field, digging up bones, and putting them back together. A good understanding of biology, geology, and even engineering can help to figure out how extinct animals lived and especially how they moved around. To further comprehend how we can use knowledge of engineering in palaeontology, especially with respect to understanding extinct animal flight, we spoke to Colin Palmer from the University of Bristol, and the University of Southampton. His background in engineering provides a unique set of skills and angle to studying pterosaur flight.

After a month long hiatus, Darren and John return, with this overlong, self-important, dull and portentous episode. News from the World of News includes the best and worst of teeth at the SVPCA, deer-cow hybrids (or as we call them "cows"), Transylvanian pturtles, some expert FU on antlers.Cash for Questions includes the sauropod respiratory system, and a spinoff discussion on size, (we're still not sure which) Planet of the Apes, the ever-changing head of Quetzalcoatlus, and another round on tyrannosaur arms.Finally, an extended rant on one of the worst films we've ever seen, Noah (2013). Surprising verdict: they should have stuck closer to the Bible. The best review is here. Darren: 3/10, John: 1/10. Download here.

禽龙属（学名：Iguanodon，意为“鬣蜥的牙齿”），属于蜥形纲鸟臀目鸟脚下目的禽龙类，是大型草食性动物，身长约10米，站起来高3到4米，前手拇指有一尖爪，可能用来抵抗掠食动物，或是协助进食。 禽龙的化石多数发现于欧洲的比利时、英国、德国。它们主要生存于白垩纪早期的巴列姆阶到早阿普第阶，约1亿2600万年前到1亿2500万年前。禽龙的演化位置大约位于行动敏捷的棱齿龙类首次出现，演化至鸟脚下目中最繁盛的鸭嘴龙类，这段演化过程的中间位置。禽龙与年代更晚的鸭嘴龙类，共同属于禽龙类演化支。 禽龙的化石在1822年首次发现，并在1825年由英国地理学家吉迪恩·曼特尔进行描述与命名。在过去的研究历史中，有许多化石被归类于禽龙，年代横跨侏罗纪启莫里阶到白垩纪森诺曼阶，范围广达欧洲、北美洲、亚洲内蒙古、以及北非。但根据近年研，这些化石多被归类于其他属，或是建立为新属。目前的唯一有效种是贝尼萨尔禽龙（I. bernissartensis）。 禽龙是继斑龙之后，世界上第二种正式命名的恐龙。斑龙、禽龙、以及林龙是最初用来定义恐龙总目的三个属。古生物学界对于禽龙的了解，因为新发现的化石而随着时间不断改变。禽龙的大量标本，包括从两个著名尸骨层发现的接近完整骨骸，使得研究人员可提出许多禽龙生活方面的假设，包括进食、移动方式、以及社会行为。禽龙的重建图也随着标本的新发现而改变。 风神翼龙（Quetzalcoatlus）又名披羽蛇翼龙、羽蛇神翼龙，是种翼手龙类，生存于晚白垩纪（马斯特里赫特阶），约7000万年前到6550万年前，是目前已知最大的飞行动物之一。它属于神龙翼龙科，该科是先进而缺乏牙齿的翼龙类。属名的来源是阿兹提克文明里的披羽蛇神奎玆特克（Quetzalcoatl）。 第一个风神翼龙化石是在1971年，由道格拉斯·劳森（Douglas A. Lawson）发现于德州大弯曲国家公园的Javelina地层发现。这个标本包括部分的翼（由前臂与延长的第四手指构成），从翼推测翼展超过10米。劳森将这标本建立为新属：诺氏风神翼龙（Quetzalcoatlus northropi）。在1996年，Kellner与Langston在德州公布了了第二个未命名种。这个暂时性被称为Quetzalcoatlus sp.的标本，比诺氏风神翼龙还完整，包括部分头颅骨。虽然较北方风神翼龙的小，而翼展已证实长达5.5米。 在2002年，海尔河组发现的一节神龙翼龙科的颈椎，可能属于风神翼龙。这个标本原本被研究人员与暴龙类的化石混在一起。这个标本并没有被暴龙类捕食的迹象。科学家估计这只神龙翼龙科的翼展为5到5.5米。 在1995年，恐龙公园组发现一个神龙翼龙科的部份幼年骨骼，可能属于风神翼龙或其近亲。根据翼上的断裂牙齿，这个骨骼曾被蜥鸟盗龙（一种小型驰龙类）所咬食。根据牙齿的断裂状况，风神翼龙与其近亲的骨头应该非常坚硬，而非易碎。