Biggest Flying Animal

[Lucifer Box]

"how could it - it lived 220 million years ago"

Put there by Satan to deceive people into believing the world is more than 6000 years old, I guess.

[WageSlave]

Often wondered about Emus, are they birds that evolved to become flightless or are birds emus that evolved to fly?

We could ask Rod Hull. Oh wait....

[hyperD]

Often wondered about Emus, are they birds that evolved to become flightless or are birds emus that evolved to fly?

Perhaps they were just lazy birds. Met quite a few of them as a younger man...

[threaded]

Often wondered about Emus, are they birds that evolved to become flightless or are birds emus that evolved to fly?

[Francko]

"how could it - it lived 220 million years ago"

I've seen the Flintstones and there were cars around back in them days. Strangely everbody spoke with an American accent way before the US was discovered by the spanish chappie who couldn't read a map

Amerigo Vespucci was italian.

Unless you refer to Cristoforo Colombo who came first (but not even really the first) whose origin are still being discussed (whether he was spanish/portuguese or italian - that son of a sailor).

[WageSlave]

Imagine if that took a sh1t on your car!

Never mind that, I wouldn't fancy shifting the bugger if it perched on the TV aerial.

Maybe that's what happened to Rod Hull....

[BoredBloke]

"how could it - it lived 220 million years ago"

I've seen the Flintstones and there were cars around back in them days. Strangely everbody spoke with an American accent way before the US was discovered by the spanish chappie who couldn't read a map

[Francko]

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But scientists are now beginning to realise that larger lizards with huge wingspans were resident across the world.
[...]

Zeitghost! Do you have a wingspan complex? In that case you may try to think that it's how you use it that it counts!

[supremepods]

how could it - it lived 220 million years ago !

I don't know.....

Some people !

[BoredBloke]

World's Largest Flying Animal Discovered Friday September 9, 01:27 PM Scientists have discovered the largest animal ever to have taken to the skies.Twice as big as a jet fighter and as elegant as a swan, the pterosaur had a wing span of 59ft - twice the size of the new Typhoon Eurofighter.The giant lizard, a cousin of the dinosaurs, dominated the skies about 220 million years ago.

It had been known that large pterosaurs with wingspans of about 38ft were relatively common.

But scientists are now beginning to realise that larger lizards with huge wingspans were resident across the world.

The revelation follows discoveries of footprints and fossilised bones in Israel, Jordan, Brazil and Romania.


It may have been bigger than a jet fighter, but it was also just as sophisticated in its design.

It flew thanks to a very, very thin membrane of skin and super lightweight bones.

Scientists added that courtship would be carried out "with gusto".


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Imagine if that took a sh1t on your car!