azhdarchid

plural azhdarchids

1. Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.

   There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids.

   2017 February 8, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian

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   Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the largest-ever living flyers, bigger and lighter than Orville and Wilbur Wright's early aeroplanes, glided overhead.

   2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 98