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Quetzalcoatlus was a huge prehistoric flying animal. But if it was so heavy, how did it take off?

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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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