If flying dinosaurs were not extinct, could humans tame them into mounts?

Mankind has the ambition to conquer and domesticate wild animals, but if flying dinosaurs aren't extinct, can humans tame them into mounts?

Can we tame flying dinosaurs like this?

Conquering the sky has always been the desire of mankind throughout history, only so long as mankind invented hot air balloons, airplanes, gliders, and so on. blue.

But have you ever thought that without those kinds of "machines" humans could fly into the sky with creatures like mounts in myths? And if flying dinosaurs aren't extinct, can we tame them and ride them up into the sky?

The mount helps the Na'vi blue race fly in the sky of the planet Pandora in the fictional movie Avatar.

Through archaeological evidence as well as fossils that humans have found, we can confirm that with what mankind has discovered so far, the Pterizard species is the largest flying creature ever appeared. on our planet.

So, how big are the largest Pterizard? We can take Quetzalcoatlus as an example - a genus Pterosauria living in the late Cretaceous North America is the largest flying animal along with Hatzegopteryx because the two species are about the same size.

When upright they are as tall as giraffes and their wingspan is over 12 m long, at that size they will be equivalent to a small roller coaster.

Although the size is quite bulky, but their weight is very light, only from 200-250 kg, equivalent to the weight of 3-4 adults.

Compare the size of Quetzalcoatlus with humans when standing upright.

Compare the size of Quetzalcoatlus as they expand to the width of the wingspan with the size of humans.

A small roller coaster can accommodate an adult, so the size of the Quetzalcoatlus, many people will think they can completely ride for an adult to fly into the air, but in fact when distributing carefully, this is completely impossible . Why is that?

First , the size of the giant Pterizard may be equivalent to the small aircraft, gliders, but the size and weight of each bone, muscle, wing membrane . on their bodies are natural mother. Accurate calculation course to reach a perfect balance.

The body structure of giant lizards can only make them fly even when full, but if an additional adult is carried on its back, apart from the weight of that person, it must be calculated more. the weight of riding devices such as the control cord, saddle or protective armor and thus their original body balance will be broken and prevent them from flying as a mount.

The skeleton structure of Quetzalcoatlus is very thin and light.

The lizard can fly as high as 3000 to 4500 meters and plunge at 80 miles per hour, the equivalent of an airplane traveling at 128km / h.At this rate, almost no prey can escape their onslaught.

Second , if a person rides on a huge flying dinosaur, the journey has failed from the takeoff step because even if they are alone, taking off is always a pretty big challenge for the pterosaurs.

They do not flap their wings to create an airflow that helps them take off like birds, they must run through short distances and then spread their wings to fly off the ground. If a flying dinosaur takes off with the weight of an adult and riding equipment, it is certain that the flight will fail completely.

Pterizard IQ is very limited.

Third , in addition to the ability to bear the balance of balance as well as the weight, the physical of the flying dinosaurs, there is another important reason to consider.

Their brains are very small when compared to their body proportions, so the IQ of the Pterizard is very limited, they can not communicate with humans nor be tamed as mounts.

Humans have tamed horses as mounts, they have the perfect skeletal structure to ride as well as higher IQs than most other animals, though it takes us thousands of years to be able to domesticated them into domestic horses.

Therefore, it can be said that the Pterizard do not have enough IQ to tame, so if they do not become extinct, humanity will tame them to become mounts seems impossible.

Or if they try to do that, they will most likely use the instincts of predators and turn humans into meals in just a few minutes .

Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx are the largest flying creatures that ever existed on Earth.They dominated the prehistoric sky and had almost no natural enemies.Even the largest and most ferocious dinosaurs can become their prey.The Quetzalcoatlus lived at the end of the Cretaceous period in North America (Late Cretaceous about 68 - 65.5 million years ago).