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A life-size replica of Hatzegopteryx, the largest flying dinosaur pterosaur of all times, discovered on Romanian territory, will be revealed to the public for the first time on July 28.
With a wingspan of 12 meters and a skull that measured about 3 meters, Hatzegopteryx was a giant dinosaur pterosaur that lived about 71-65 million years ago.
The dinosaur pterosaur, which belongs to the only dinosaur park in Romania – Dino Parc, will be presented at the Antipa Museum in Bucharest, within the Wings over time (Aripi peste timp) exhibition. It was reproduced according to the latest findings of Dan Grigorescu, the teacher who found the the giant dinosaur's pterosaur's bone fragments.
The exhibition will stay open between July 28 and August 14, and will give dinosaur Age of Dinosaur enthusiasts the chance to see the Hatzegopteryx, but also the Pteranodon animatronic and three other exhibits placed outside the Museum of Geology.
After the visit to Bucharest, the dinosaurs Mesozoic models will go back home, to Dino Parc in Rasnov.
Beautiful reconstruction, thanks for the pictures. 12 meters is just enough to take the "world's largest flying dinosaur pterosaur" crown. This Quetzalcoatlus northropi (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Quetzalcoatlus) is 11-12 meters. I have seen this specimen, it is freaking awesome!! :o :o
8)
Quote from: Scion7 on July 23, 2016, 04:58:53 PM
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A life-size replica of Hatzegopteryx, the largest flying dinosaur pterosaur of all times, discovered on Romanian territory, will be revealed to the public for the first time on July 28.
With a wingspan of 12 meters and a skull that measured about 3 meters, Hatzegopteryx was a giant dinosaur pterosaur that lived about 71-65 million years ago.
The dinosaur pterosaur, which belongs to the only dinosaur park in Romania – Dino Parc, will be presented at the Antipa Museum in Bucharest, within the Wings over time (Aripi peste timp) exhibition. It was reproduced according to the latest findings of Dan Grigorescu, the teacher who found the the giant dinosaur's pterosaur's bone fragments.
The exhibition will stay open between July 28 and August 14, and will give dinosaur Age of Dinosaur enthusiasts the chance to see the Hatzegopteryx, but also the Pteranodon animatronic and three other exhibits placed outside the Museum of Geology.
After the visit to Bucharest, the dinosaurs Mesozoic models will go back home, to Dino Parc in Rasnov.
I thought the only Romanian dinosaur was
Andrei.
;) :laugh:
and Florestan :P
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on July 23, 2016, 05:57:04 PM
Beautiful reconstruction, thanks for the pictures. 12 meters is just enough to take the "world's largest flying dinosaur pterosaur" crown. This Quetzalcoatlus northropi is 11-12 meters.
Maybe. The probability on the largest specimen of both species being fossilized is very low, so both are within the 'margin of error' on who was the biggest boy on the block.
AND ... there are still larger bits and pieces not yet described. As they say in Paleontology, "wait for the paper." 8)
Franz Josef might have written a 'ptero' symphony ... if he'd known.
What would REALLY be cool is an actual flying model that could buzz Florestan while he's out in the country, driving his car. 0:)
That would be my kind of "pteroism."
Beautiful, awesome creatures. Florestan wouldn't stand a chance.
Agreed.
After buzzing Florestan's car and forcing him off the road outside the outskirts of Bucharest,
they'd poke at the car windows, making him panic and attempt a "run for it," in which
images of large African storks pecking at a large fish they impaled come to mind.
;)
[...continuing the story...]
Florestan begins to rev up the engine in his attempted 'run for it' manoeuvre once his car is back on asphalt. But just as he does so, the monstrous pterosaurs similarly panic and move into an attack mode, breaking his windshield and piercing the bonnet of his now useless car. Florestan has no choice but to escape on foot before he is too late. Frightened, his vision is blurry as he fumbles around trying to open the door, after a few moments he is successful and tumbles out of the car into a watery patch of Romanian mud. The startled beasts flap frantically higher into the air to give them time to swoop down for a fatal attack on the helpless Floresten struggling for his life.....
;D
:laugh: