How the Largest Flying Bird of All Time Stayed Airborne 

And singing that sticky song _"I'm an albatross"_

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It said it could "Rival" so it's not exactly the size of the harrier jump jets wings. Also please correct your comment because its not as big as the entire plane. But your comment seems to tell us that it is.

@@fionndugan8531 It's not OP's comment that needs correcting. The video's narration is what needs correcting. They explained that the wingspan was as wide as a Harrier jet, then without posing the problem that a bird flies differently than a jet, problems of the weight of the bird, etc. went on to ask how it could possibly stay airborne.

IKR that's all Science does today... a lot 🐂💩 The Albatross I would assume rides thermal columns of heated air like a vulture.. I'm just guessing.... I am NOT a scientist ☺

@@fionndugan8531 yeah just as the theory of evolution is not true or supported by a single fact based on the scientific method... The God of Abraham through His Son Jesus Christ created everything that was ever made. And the story of creation can be found in the book of Genesis chapters one and two. Yet our school and history books seem to tell us otherwise😝😝🙁

laugh in russian biggest plane ever

Irony

Well, bird flight and the way planes fly is quite different. Planes can fly much, much faster which leads to requiring a far smaller wing to get enough lift.

I mean, too big to fly for something lacking propellers or a jet engine... and in the case of P. sandersi, the ability to really flap your wings.

im very late, but argentavis has been found to have not been like a vulture at all, its niche was closer to a caracara and an eagle than that of a condor. they could go as far as chase prey on foot even. even argentavis isnt exactly like modern albatrosses, and would have been like a mix of large petrel and albatross, although a bit more on the albatross side.

Yup smaller species are more resilient to extinction, but what’s even more interesting is that these birds convergent it evolved with pterosaurs from 65mya and they’re not that closely related (birds & pterosaurs are in same clade archosaura tho)

@@joakos1122 pterosaurs and birds arent only on archosauria, they are even closer, being both inside ornithodira. also, in what trait do you mean they converged

Argentavis is not a Scavenger, As you may think. Argentavis is a completely misidentified bird, As it is not a vulture species, As stated by the so called experts. I Believe that Argentavis Magnificence, Kills what it eats everyday.

@@johnwalker9315 they were identified as vultures years ago due to the fact they are actually related to them quite closely, this view remained unchanged for many years until a some people started to reavaliate the animal and discovered they were much more similar to caracaras than vultures and had a completely diferent niche than their modern relatives.

i wish this every day. Our only hope is that we can relive any past moment in the history of the universe in the afterlife.

Me too!!! 🦖🦕🐢🦤🦬🦣🦥

Holden Magroin for real

Holden Magroin but not so real and alive anymore...

That's it, I'm playing Pokemon Heartgold after reading this.

ShinyHax I like Pokemon too but like do u really gotta say that

Holden Magroin sweet JEESUS your right

Modern albatrosses can vouch for that!

@@CJCroen1393 yeah I agree

Landing must have been an issue too

@@somebody1199 it didn't have to land for years

It probably jumped of cliffs

Ashok teja you will need a new windshield...😂😂

You must clean up the remains of your car afterwards...

Naif Mohammad Sharif ?..

Buy a new car, your car is beyond repair...

Then your car will not be in one piece.

Bruh the brids body was a meter long and it weight like 48 its poop isnt that big

Anya because he has bare hands.

shut up already

I was wondering the exact same thing

Kenan Kabbani y not

Its a fossil not a crime scene

They mirrored it the last time to make it look different 😭

it's not out until the 28th of this month

the quatz has been out since forever

+Kevin Miller this is pelagornis, not quetzalcoatlus

oh

i tamed that one too

OfficialTragic Beatz What? I just pointed out that his eyes are very blue...

Lol you never heard that expression before?

OfficialTragic Beatz No

I think it's the hue given during editing. I think they added a blue enhancing hue to make the waters more aesthetically pleasing. Typically the sea can look quite grey in windy conditions, which isn't ideal for entertainment purposes.

hes wearing contacts

why should the air be denser at lower oceanlevel?

Try as Derek might, it was too late. My time had already been wasted.

Derek Lavigne jokes on you I skipped to the end and saved 3 minutes

Derek Lavigne Thanks for saving my time :)

Correct, but what is the relevant physics? Atmospheric pressure... www.dinosaurtheory.com/thick_atmosphere.html

The simple fact you responded with seriousness to a facetious comment on a RU-vid video proves my point and entertains me.

Albatross's do this in today's world. Fascinating 😄.

That would be so cool, but taming it is the question..

You probably would have cracked it’s bones if you rode it

Oh boy would you like to learn about Ark

I know this is a year late but you’d probably break the bird cus it only weighs 46 pounds

Tranq it out feed it some fish meat craft a saddle and boom

Tiger H. Lore and environt,twavel. I think he might be either drunk or have therious speech impediment

nucleusclothing my biggest issue is that he narrates as if the audience is a roomful of toddlers.

That's also every news outlet and politician

nucleusclothing your spelling seems like it was at a level that toddlers would consider low.

I was spelling phonetically as was said by the guy in the video.

Everything was bigger back then. I believe the planet was different... less gravity perhaps?

no that wouldnt make sense.. the air was heavier in oxygen and porb density tho

Nobody got the bee movie reference?! Seriously?!

lol guys it's a meme

If the climate we're hotter maybe?

many many many bones are turned into museums and each is carefully studied to see if it is a new species variant or not, he may have spotted several key differences in the bones and brought them to light, then did more research into other bones of similar species to determine their uniqueness, just like the bones of a yellow bellied catfish and a river catfish look fairly similar when they are the same size, how ever one has its whiskers sensors on a different spot on the skull from the other, its things like this that determine new species when all you have is bones.

Jrizzle Productshizzle most be fake then right? Idiot

Racist much.

Jrizzle Productshizzle There are thousands of bones sitting in labs and museums that are not identified, its pretty easy to find them but can be near impossible to figure out what species they belong to. Sometimes bones can be mislabled as one species when they are actually a different one, or be seen as a new species when they are not. Telling an animal from a small collection of usually worn and broken bones is a pretty difficult task and can take years and much trial and error until an agreed upon conclusion can be made, even then it could still be proven wrong if a new more complete skeleton is found.

Smoke1 So then I can say all black boys get that Doris Payne affect when they discover things that don't belong to them.

you have plenty unseed right now tho

250k please

Insert Image. Agreed.......so melodramatic . Americans don’t do doco commentaries well.....leave it to David Attenborough.

Basically, yeah. A lot like modern big birds, such as albatrosses and vultures. Just kind of riding the air currents to make things easier on their huge wings.

Jacob Grenier i knew SOMEONE had to make an ARK comment😭😂😂😂

Jacob Grenier lol again with the ark comments

What? By eating.. it barely needs to eat in fact. It uses immensely little energy to fly, and thus doesn't need to worry about eating large prey. Infact, it would probably prevent flight if it did.

Most likley...

I taught quetzal is the biggest?

***** Did you forget the Birdie rally, when the bird landed on his podium in front of thousands of people? That Birdie Sanders.

NOT. For Colonel Sanders, as in KFC. ~~so obvi~~

Given its size that is definitely an albatrump

heh and this bird went extinct just like bernie sanders presidential hopes

Pedro Sepulveda Birds lie as well!

Bone humor XD

Lol

srry to be that guy but *flying bird

Even more incredible

Now this guy knows his Pelagornis, Smithsonian take notes.

Have you seen a wandering albatros flying? Same aspect-ratio wings.

The documentary doesn't do a good job with how it uses "discovery." Although the fossils of the bird were known about since the 80s, it had never been formally described. So, up to that point, it was "just a big bird." It could have been a big individual of a known species, or a big new species. Until Dan studied it and formally described it, it was just a big question mark. So yea, it's the first published description of a new species so that claim is valid in that regard. Also, fossils aren't unearthed and described immediately. It takes a long time cleaning, rebuilding, and comparing to other fossils before someone has enough evidence to say something is a new species. That can take years, maybe decades, depending on the specimen in question. It would have been nice if the documentary had said that. Most people think when "Science" or some other journal says a new species was discovered, that it happened like last week or something. More likely the fossil was found years ago and the work has just now been completed on it. Just like when a "new" building is opened to the public. We start thinking of the building as new once the work is done, not when the initial work begins.

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PSoneC Gaming Ha! That's the best comment.

Probably got eaten by the big sharks in the water

DingDongDanger their so thick their silent

Some birds can sleep on flight and go on flying almost forever. They basically have two modes. When they are hunting, they are generally using most of their brain power, but when they are soaring, they go into a half sleep mode where parts of their brain shut down in intervals to rest while in flight. They only need full power of their brain when they are hunting.

Nah it's like making a new dish with the same ingredients

I'm late to the game with this, but to be fair, I just saw this comment. Let me weigh in. 1) The way this documentary uses "discover" isn't the way most people would. Really, it's a "rediscovery" as these fossils had been known in the paleontology community prior to Dan publishing on them. That's what the doc narrator should have said, but they left that part out. Scientists have known about this since the 80's, in a general sense, that this was a big bird. However, Dan put in the work to formalize it as well as determined, in terms of wingspan, that it's the biggest bird. 2) Museums receive a lot of fossils depending on if they are involved in an active dig that produces a lot of material or if a lot of people happen to be donating around the same time. Factor in prep time and it can take a long time between fossils coming out of the ground and them finally getting published. 3) The publication process itself is not always fast. By the time the public sees articles or documentaries like this, work to get the information into formal scientific literature has been potentially years in the making. Now that authors can publish digitally it is getting faster, but papers still have to be read and reviewed by other researchers and then go through rounds of edits before the general public even hears about it... if they do. Not all animals are "world's largest ---" in which case they probably won't get a Smithsonian Channel special. 4) Not every paleontologist is an expert on every fossil ever found. Sometimes it takes the right paleontologist visiting the right collection to immediately recognize the importance of specimen. Even more so if the specimen is REALLY fragmentary. I hope this helps!

Jjames763 yeah but pterosaurs aren't birds, they're reptiles

TrailerGamer I'm not saying pterosaurs are birds, I'm just saying that from a biomechanical perspective, and in comparison to pterosaurs weighing hundreds of pounds, a 50 lb animal being capable of flight is not surprising in the slightest, even though the video makes an exaggerated point of asking "how could something SO BIG, POSSIBLY be able to stay aloft?!" Pelagornis is cool enough in and of itself, it doesn't need to be hyped beyond reason and sense.

Jjames763 it was about the size of a quetzocoatlus

Count Mustard No, it wasn't, not even close. Quetzalcoatlus was about ten times more massive; recent estimates put them in the range of 400-500 pounds. They were also about 15 feet long and had a wingspan of more than 30 feet.

Jjames763 but scientists believe that quetzocoatlus was ground dwelling and couldn't fly.

Apparently there's not that many Andean Condors left in the world sadly!

The Wandering Albatross has a longer wingspan, but the Condor is the overall larger and heavier animal.

Humans can never have wings, but if homoerectus beings had wings, it would have no arms, no abdomen, just a big Flat chest that would look like a belly. Kinda ridiculous looking if u ask me. And it would be super unbalanced to fly considering it would have to look up with its neck and no tail feathers to keep it balanced.

What’s wrong with you? it’s not that hard to walk.

You can leap pretty high in goat simulator.

Then what do you do? Fly around aimlessly and find stuff to shit on?

ya gotta eat too

TigerMeadows and hunt humans with it because of so many people in the world to get rid of a few.

Find stuff eat, drink (they can't drink sea water right?), etc. Catching fish could be done realistically, you gotta swoop in like that and rise up and go eat the fish. There could be predators to avoid and fight against.

You will be too heavy and yall both are going to sink in the ocean 💀

Me too, but I'm sure not bigger.

well in terms of wingspan, pelagornis was longer but argentavis was heavier in weight.

hey aren't you the Ark wildlife guide guy?

+Cheez Loord Arks survivors wildlife appendix? yes, I am lol. i havent updated it in forever

+BlackFish yeah, I'm guessing it could get pretty tedious

As far as I know this one had a larger wingspan though, which was probably how this was judged (modern Wandering Albatross also has a higher Wingspan than some heavier birds and are sometimes called the largest flying bird for that reason).

@@Kaefer1973 but if you crush all the mass together the largest one is the kori bustard

jorge murillo but that isn't a pterodactyl, that's a bird. Pterodactyls were flying reptiles.

Pterosaurs were actually capable of true flight, and they were better at it than birds are.

They didn't need warm air currents or jumping off a cliff either, they can actually catapult themselves into the air with their powerful arms, allowing them to fly when they please.

jorge murillo Pterosaurs did flap just not all the time.

@@dantheultimate2497 Well, technically birds are also flying reptiles. The difference is that birds are dinosaurs, pterosaurs were not.

No, if we compare the size of body and the wingspan, pelagornis has bigger body and longer wingspan. But if we compare on the stats, Argentavis got more weigh because this bird eat a lot of meat (unlike pelargonis who ate fish), so argentavis is more massive on weight comparison

@@inayachan2949 Mass is what really counts when it comes to deciding which animal is bigger. So yeah, Argentavis was indeed the bigger animal.

@@mr.spider6859 true man, mass is what is really important. But some minority of people will look more on the height, example sum will say therizino is bigger than trex cus it's taller. But on actual fact, t-rex is actually larger because of its mass

Wrong. CO2 is the "thickest".

Oratio G That makes solid sense....

No, atmosphere was the same as is today.

I thought quetz or hatz was bigger?

I love the fact that you called Pelagornis a dino. We need more people recognizing avian dinosaurs.

CJCroen1393 ikr

MeAgainstTheWorld, NO ONE CARES ABOUT ARK; SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR UNSCIENTIFIC, PRETENTIOUS GAME.

Dabbingson Last Name stfu, actually there is no need to get so aggressive towards someone who really enjoys a game about dinosaurs even if it is inaccurate.

Jonah Kelley, let me assume that you're either a middle aged mother who defends everything or a twenty something old woman who plays ark. The latter is more likely as you did say "STFU".

Justin Pegomastax kibble now.

Eric Taylor the feathers are fluttering dip shit, are you trying to implie that his feathers wouldnt move or something ok dumb fuck

The B why the fuck are RU-vid commenters so aggressive? You literally cussed him out twice for no reason chill tf out it's sad

Milbox R no you chill bitch

my name is my name No bitch

Play that game 2)

Daniel Gerena na, sea birds can fly threw the ocean for months, maybe even years (don't quote me on that)

Jay101 Gaming What about sleep?

85zip There wings are very big for a reason, it helps them fly effortlessly threw the ocean sea winds. Because of this, it uses little to no energy flying, I am no sea bird expert. But I would assume sea birds could either fly while sleeping, or not sleep at all because it doesn't use much energy.

Cliffs, islands, peninsulas, rocks in the middle of the sea, they have a myriad of options.

CJCroen1393 or just simply on the sea, that is a thing sea birds like albatrosses do when they get tired they will just plop down on the water and sleep

For the same reason The Wandering Albatross is sometimes refreed to as the largest modern flying bird even though there are at least two heavier bird species around. It depends on how you define "big" or "large" which aren't really scientifically accurate terms compared to "wingspan, "shoulder hight" or "weight".

Argentavis is the heaviest.

BallisticSentinel really

Shorter wingspan, only like 16-20 ft wingspan.

To my knowledge, Argentavis and Pelagornis had roughly the same wingspan. Which is pretty cool when you consider the dynamic between the two largest birds of today, the Andean condor and the wandering albatross, also having the same wingspan and also living very similar lifestyles to Argentavis and Pelagornis respectively.

CJCroen1393 what If they are ancestors of both argentavis and pelagornis?what If they didin't Go extinct at all,but Just changed over time

No, they're descendants of reptiles. Theropods.

Westin Johnson, you're right.

Dabbingson Last Name No he isn’t.

Mighta been the Thunderbird?

I am guessing that you saw Argentavis Magnificence. If it looked like long fingers at the ends of the wings, and muscular as you said. Also if it looked very heavy, then you have seen Argentivas. Be sure to look up this bird, And see if it looks similar.

@@johnwalker9315 very close! The head was bigger, similar to a Shoebill stork(triangular)head and very proportionate to the body. Almost non existent tail feathers. The legs from what I remember where short like a hawk. Not many feathers on the bird I saw, more like scales, or the feathers were so tight to the body that it looked like scales.