Albatross YouTube video might have analog value for extinct Pteranodon
They fly all day (600 miles average)
and feed on squid at night. Note the short chord wing attached to a small body. They live longer than other birds (69 years), perhaps because some lay only one egg a year. Some two.
No birds travel further.
1100 miles/per day. Circumnavigate the southern seas in 43 days. 60 million miles in a lifetime.
Figure 1. Click to enlarge. The largest flying and non-flying birds and pterosaurs to scale.
Figure 1. Click to enlarge. The largest flying and non-flying birds and pterosaurs to scale. No albatross is shown here.
Figure 1. Left: Pteranodon. Right: Diomedea (albatross).
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Figure 1. Left: Pteranodon. Right: Diomedea (albatross).
Modern analogs for extinct tetrapods
are useful as POSSIBILITIES, not certainties.
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