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8. Scaly soarers
Ace naturalist David Attenborough with a CGI Quetzalcoatlus dating from the cretaceous period, 71 million years ago. with a wingspan of 10-12m, weighing a whopping 250kg and standing as tall as a giraffe, quetzalcoatlus is biggest animal ever to have ever flown. Some experts say it could launch itself into the air at a speed of 35mph with a single powerful spring off the ground. Once airborne it could glide for hundreds of miles
