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Azhdarchidae

The biggest beasts to take to the skies, these animals broke records when it came to flight and pushed pterosaur limits to new heights.
Azhdarchidae

pterosaurs

Aerotitan

Aerotitan

Aerotitan was a big animal, but only half the size of Quetzalcoatlus.
Alanqa

Alanqa

Alanqa is one of only two azhdarchid pterosaurs from North Africa.
Albadraco

Albadraco

Albadraco was a medium-sized pterosaur that lived in what is now Romania.
Aralazhdarcho

Aralazhdarcho

Aralazhdarcho is a pterosaur found in what is now modern-day Kazakhstan.
Arambourgiania

Arambourgiania

When first discovered, the fossil of Arambourgiania attracted a lot of attention, including a visit from the king of Jordan.
Argentinadraco

Argentinadraco

This new pterosaur from Argentina may have dug through sand to get to its prey.
Azhdarcho

Azhdarcho

The gigantic long-necked azhdarchids got their name from this funny-looking pterosaur discovered in the desert of Uzbekistan in 1984.
Bogolubovia

Bogolubovia

Russian pterosaur Bogolubovia is known from a single vertebra fossil that has since been lost.
Cryodrakon

Cryodrakon

Cryodrakon would have been among the biggest of all pterosaurs.
Eurazhdarcho

Eurazhdarcho

Eurazhdarcho shared an island with other pterosaurs as well as miniature dinosaurs.
Hateg Island Azhdarchid

Hateg Island Azhdarchid

Cretaceous Romania was a wild place. This pterosaur, along with its two kin, ruled the roost of Hateg Island.
Hatzegopteryx

Hatzegopteryx

One of the biggest pterosaurs lived alongside dwarf dinosaurs on Hațeg Island in present-day Romania.
Hornby Island Azhdarchid

Hornby Island Azhdarchid

Paleontologists described a pterosaur in 2016 from the Late Cretaceous of Hornby Island in British Columbia, Canada. It's most likely an azhdarchid, but unlike its other giant family members, it was the size of a house cat.
Mistralazhdarcho

Mistralazhdarcho

Mistralazhdarcho, with an up to 20-foot wingspan, lived in Cretaceous France.
Mongol Giant

Mongol Giant

A new giant pterosaur could help rewrite our understanding of Cretaceous Mongolia.
Navajodactylus

Navajodactylus

As you probably suspected, Navajodactylus honors the Navajo Nation of the Southwest United States.
Phosphatodraco

Phosphatodraco

Paleontologists found Phosphatodraco together with several other species of pterosaurs in the phosphate mines of Morocco.
Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus may have been the biggest flying animal of all time.
Radiodactylus

Radiodactylus

Radiodactylus is perhaps the only pterosaur found at a nuclear reactor site.
Volgadraco

Volgadraco

Volgadraco is a Late Cretaceous azhdarchid pterosaur from Russia's Volga River valley.
Zhejiangopterus

Zhejiangopterus

Zhejiangopterus has the most complete skeletal remains of any azhdarchid pterosaur.