SciShow: How did pterosaurs get off the ground? #shorts #science #SciShow

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Content of the Lesson: This video was originally posted to TikTok in April 2021. Quetzalcoatlus was a huge prehistoric flying animal. But if it was so heavy, how did it take off? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) Alex Billow: Writer Kyle Nackers: Fact Checker Alexis Dahl: Script Editor Savannah Geary: Editor, Associate Producer Sarah Suta: Producer Caitlin Hofmeister: Executive Producer Hank Green: Executive Producer Sources: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/pter.html https://theconversation.com/pterosaurs-should-have-been-too-big-to-fly-so-how-did-they-manage-it-60892 http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html Image sources: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0032074#s5 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arambourgiania.png


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