Comments on: New Pterosaur Video?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:02:46 +0000

Frigatebird, schmigatebird, that’s some guy up there in a flying suit contraption.:)

By: RockerEm

RockerEm — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:30:18 +0000

hmmm I’m stumped on this one.

By: borntofightdinosaurs

borntofightdinosaurs — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:19:58 +0000

it’s funny.

even if it WASN’T a frigate bird, and it WAS a living pterosaur, it would STILL be mistaken identity.

with no head crest and a long tail, it would have been a rhamphorhynchus.

still, i give the people who filmed this credit. a good, clean, steady shot. why can’t THEY shoot our nessie and bigfoot videos?

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:25:58 +0000

I’m in on the frigate bird. without scale against the sky there is no reference for size, but a seven foot wingspan is going to be pretty impressive…especially flying overhead, and fast…

the markings in the video match the frigate bird too.

Are there frigate birds populations around Central / South America…I know there have been a lot of pterosaur sightings in those areas in the past (well maybe not a lot, but some).

By: jchip

jchip — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:51:20 +0000

Definitely a Frigate bird. They’re thick around Cancun and fascinating to watch in flight.

By: btgoss

btgoss — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:27:33 +0000

YouTube is the carrier, it just let’s us see how far the infection has gone.

By: Ranatemporaria

Ranatemporaria — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:55:16 +0000

In Full agreement with loren et al on this one however on the subject of hoaxes i did read an interesting article a while back, eyes peeled eh?…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070404-22324800-bc-us-pterodactyls.xml

By: Randlet

Randlet — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:38:39 +0000

I think youtube is making people stupid, also the video quality of its encoding isn’t as good as some of the alts out there.

By: UKCryptid

UKCryptid — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:19:39 +0000

They’re not doing too badly, most sea birds are suffering a bit with over-fishing, but frigate birds steal food from the puffins and other gulls coming back to their nests so I don’t think they realise the probs the smaller birds face catching them

By: skeptik

skeptik — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:34:52 +0000

Nice looking birds. What’s their status in terms of being endangered?