Giant pterosaur needed runway for takeoff
November 8, 2012
TG Daily - Researchers couldn't help but wonder how such a heavy animal, with relatively flimsy wings to boot, became airborne. Professor Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University used a computer simulation to find out.
The giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus needed to taxi down a slope to take off, new research shows
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Researchers couldn't help but wonder how such a heavy animal, with relatively flimsy wings to boot, became airborne. Professor Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University used a computer simulation to find out.