3 euro Austria 2020 - The Arambourgiania

Description

The prehistoric giant featured on the third piece in the Supersaurs series is the largest flying animal ever to dominate the skies - Arambourgiania . With a beak like a pelican, a neck like a giraffe, wings like a giant bat and a crest like a Mohican haircut, this extraordinary pterosaur is colorfully resurrected on this superb piece.

Widespread short-tailed flying reptiles that became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period around 66 million years ago, Arambourgiania were enormous creatures. Researchers estimate that the largest species had a 3-metre-long neck, a 13-metre wingspan and stood 5 metres tall. The first vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight, pterosaurs are often referred to as "flying dinosaurs". Although this is not the case, they were more closely related to dinosaurs than to contemporary reptiles such as the crocodile.

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