Were dinosaurs real, and was the Pterydactyl bird bigger than a jumbo airliner?

Question

The dinosaur bird you always see on TV and photos. Was this bird bigger than a jumbo airliner? I can't imagine seeing anything flying to be so huge! Also, I heard the wooly Mammoth old relative to the Elephant was huge as well. I heard it was almost at a dinosaurs height as well. How big were these creatures if they were really real? Mammoth and Pterydactyl are my main concerns. It's a good thing we didn't live in those times if they were real.

Answer 1

Scientists have found a bone from a terradactile that had a 40 foot wing span. You can go to the Smithsonian and see actual dinosaur fossils. Once you're right next to them you'll get a good idea of how enormous they were.

Answer 2

Pterosaurs were actually larger than pterodactyls were. This link has them down at a wingspan of 33 feet. They could fly too. Looked a lot alike. Same group of animals.

It is a common misconception that mammoths were much larger than modern elephants, an error that has led to "mammoth" being used as an adjective meaning "very big". Certainly, the largest known species, the Imperial Mammoth of California, reached heights of at least 4 meters (13 feet) at the shoulder. Mammoths would probably weigh in the region of 6-8 tons. However, most species of mammoth were only about as large as a modern Asian Elephant.

Answer 3

I know they were real, but I'm not sure how big they were, I'd expect that they would be huge though. I need to learn these things though if I want to be a Paleontologist. Just think what it would be like if Velocaraptor (sp?) or T-Rexwere still around!!! Raptors are believed to be the smartest Dinosaur that ever existed, smart enough to have sophisticated ways of comunicating and hunting! Hardly any animals were or are smart enough for that, their are pack hunters(like wolves), but the Raptor had a different way of doing things.

Answer 4

Pterodactyls were flying reptiles, not birds or dinosaurs. They could grow a wing span greater than 30 ft. The true giant was ornithicyris. A wing span of 40 plus ft. As long as some private plains.

Answer 5

mammoth was considerably larger than todays elephants. pterodactyls were not as big as airliners. more likely they were about 28 feet across (wingspan) I believe. and they were reptiles, no birds. and later on there were also pygmy mammoths which only grew about 6 feet in height. dwindling food sources and evolution caused them to shrink in size due to lack of abundant resources.