Mō te kararehe nui rawa atu i te ao, e mōhio ana te katoa ko te tohorā kikorangi, engari me pēhea te kararehe rere nui rawa atu? Whakaarohia tētahi mea whakamiharo, whakamataku hoki e kopikopiko ana i te repo i te 70 miriona tau ki muri, he Pterosauria tata ki te 4 mita te teitei e mōhiotia ana ko Quetzalcatlus, nō te whānau Azhdarchidae. Ka taea e ōna parirau te eke ki te 12 mita te roa, ā, e toru mita te roa o tōna waha. E hawhe tana te taumaha. Ae, ko Quetzalcatlus te kararehe rere nui rawa atu e mōhiotia ana e te ao.
Ko te ingoa o te puningaQuetzalcatlusNō Quetzalcoatl, te atua o te nakahi huruhuru i te iwi Aztec.
He tino kaha te Quetzalcatlus i taua wā. Ko te tikanga, kāore he ātete o te Tyrannosaurus Rex taitamariki i tana tūtakitanga ki te Quetzalcatlus. He tere te pākia o te tinana, ā, me kai tonu. Nā te mea he maeneene tōna tinana, he nui te pūmua e hiahiatia ana hei pūngao. Ka taea te kī he kai māna te Tyrannosaurus rex iti e iti iho ana i te 300 pauna. He parirau nui anō hoki tō tēnei Pterosauria, ā, he pai mō te rere tawhiti.
I kitea te tuatahi o ngā kōiwi Quetzalcatlus i te Pāka Whenua o Big Bend i Texas i te tau 1971 e Douglas A. Lawson. I roto i tēnei tauira he parirau wāhanga (he waewae o mua me te maihao tuawhā e toro atu ana), e kiia ana he neke atu i te 10 mita te whānui o ngā parirau. Ko ngā Pterosauria ngā kararehe tuatahi i whanake i te kaha ki te rere i muri i ngā pepeke. He nui te sternum o Quetzalcatlus, koinei te wāhi e piri ai ngā uaua mō te rere, he nui ake i ngā uaua o ngā manu me ngā pekapeka. Nō reira, kāore e kore he "kairererangi" tino pai rātou.
Kei te tautohetia tonutia te rohenga mōrahi o te whānui parirau o te Quetzalcatlus, ā, kua ara ake anō hoki te tautohe mō te rohenga mōrahi o te hanganga o te rere a ngā kararehe.
He maha ngā whakaaro rerekē mō te āhua noho o te Quetzalcatlus. Nā te roa o ōna tuaiwi kaki me ōna kauae roa kāore he niho, tera pea i whai ika ia pērā i te matuku, i te tinana pērā i te taaka pakira, i te kāroro ngutu-kutikuti rānei o ēnei rā.
E whakaarohia ana ka rere a Quetzalcatlus i raro i tōna ake mana, engari ina eke ki te rangi, ka pau pea te nuinga o te wā ki te retireti.
I noho a Quetzalcatlus i te wā mutunga o te Cretaceous, tata ki te 70 miriona tau ki muri ki te 65.5 miriona tau ki muri. I ngaro tahi rātou me ngā tainasoa i te wā o te ngaromanga o te Cretaceous-Tertiary.
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Wā tuku: Pipiri-22-2022