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Bermuda Triangle is one of the most mysterious places on Earth? It's a section in the North Atlantic Ocean where dozens of ships and planes are said to have disappeared. Why is it so dangerous and which monsters inhabit the Bermuda Triangle? What if the 2 most terrible creatures in the world fight with each other? And 14 terrifying monsters that actually lived on Earth. Find out in this video!
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00:00If you draw up a map, trace a line connecting the island of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Miami, and back to
00:07Bermuda, what do you get?
00:08The infamous triangle, known for swallowing thousands of ships and aircraft over the centuries.
00:15But there's a new mystery to this already enigmatic place.
00:20Something's lurking deep in the waters below, and it's leaving bizarre clues of its existence.
00:27Splash! Your submarine hits the water's surface.
00:31You descend 100, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 feet.
00:36It's getting darker. The sub's walls creak as the pressure grows.
00:41Over 1,400 psi. It's like the weight of a grand piano squeezing every square inch of your body from
00:49all sides.
00:50You've made it to your destination. All that's left is to spot the beast.
00:56Just in time. Among the black void, you see a bright green glow off in the distance.
01:03It's getting closer. As it approaches, it gets bigger.
01:07This is it! The creature that's been leaving strange circular markings on fish, dolphins, whales, and even other sharks.
01:16Behold! The cookie-cutter shark!
01:18Don't let its size fool you. It may be no longer than a bowling pin, but this creature is a
01:25parasite.
01:26It attaches itself to other marine animals using its neatly arranged serrated teeth.
01:31With one bite, it fills its belly, detaches, and goes on about its day.
01:38Its mobile snack also swims away with its life.
01:42The only evidence of this rendezvous? A cookie-shaped mark on its body.
01:49Don't assume you're safe in your submarine.
01:51These bold little guys have been known to go after subs, too.
01:56You decide not to risk the shark punching a hole in the only thing keeping you from being squished to
02:01a pulp by the surrounding water.
02:03You journey on to meet other bizarre creatures lurking in the Bermuda Triangle.
02:09At twice the depth, you'll find the dragonfish.
02:13Unlike other deepwater inhabitants, these things produce light in the infrared range.
02:19Blue and green is what other fish stick to.
02:22This gives the dragonfish a huge advantage.
02:26It provides itself with light that other marine dwellers just can't perceive.
02:30Things that want to eat the dragonfish can't detect this light, as well as the critters the dragonfish likes to
02:38feed on.
02:39A truly unique deep-sea dweller is the vampire squid.
02:44Neither vampire nor squid, or octopus, this thing is a unique species of its own.
02:51It has the largest eyes compared to body size of any animal on the entire planet.
02:56When the vampire squid feels threatened, it curls its arms up and around its body.
03:02Essentially, the thing turns itself inside out.
03:07Another animal to avoid down here is the terrifying bobbit worm.
03:11It buries itself in the seafloor, leaving a small part of its body out.
03:16It waits for dinner time, with its pincer-like mouth parts open.
03:21What's on the menu?
03:23Other worms and fish that can be seven times bigger than the bobbit.
03:27It uses its five antennas to sense when lunch is close enough to...
03:32Snap!
03:33In an instant, the worm launches forward and grabs its lunch with its mouth parts.
03:39It's not done yet.
03:41Once it's got its jaws locked onto its lunch,
03:44the worm injects it with venom and pulls it down into the burrow to feast.
03:49One of the deepest trenches in the Bermuda Triangle is the Tongue of the Ocean.
03:55This is also the secret breeding grounds of tiger sharks.
03:58You'll instantly recognize them,
04:01thanks to those darker gray tiger stripes on their sides.
04:04They're the second largest predatory shark species after the Great White.
04:09And with a big size comes a big appetite.
04:13Marine mammals, smaller sharks, stingrays, and green turtles are all on the menu.
04:19If you ever come face to face with a tiger shark, hopefully not,
04:24remember this.
04:25You can tell the fish's age by looking at its stripes.
04:28They fade over time.
04:30So the younger the shark, the more pronounced its stripes.
04:35There's plenty of zooplankton in the Bermuda Triangle.
04:38These are, usually, small organisms that are essential to the ocean's food chain.
04:43But get this, if nothing ate them and they were left to grow out of control,
04:49zooplankton would cover the entire world in layers and layers in just four months.
04:54Oh, and the largest type of zooplankton is the jellyfish.
05:00Jellyfish were around long before dinosaurs.
05:02You probably know your body is 60% water.
05:06A jellyfish is 95%.
05:08So if it gets washed onto the shore, after a few hours, most of its body just evaporates into the
05:15air.
05:17There's also a jellyfish that lives forever.
05:20The immortal jellyfish can revert itself back to its polyp stage and then grow again.
05:25Sounds like something from another planet, but it's no space jelly.
05:31Those do exist, by the way.
05:33Back in the 1990s, NASA raised jellyfish in space to see what zero gravity does to them.
05:40They were just fine living up there in the cosmos.
05:43When they came back down to Earth, though, they had trouble adjusting.
05:47The European eel hasn't been to space, but it is quite a globetrotter.
05:52It travels all the way from Europe to the Sargasso Sea, where the Bermuda Triangle is located.
05:58In the larval stage, it just drifts around the ocean for as long as three years sometimes.
06:04It's also the chameleon of the sea.
06:07Over the years, the European eel changes color, going from translucent to yellow to metallic silver.
06:15They're nocturnal and secretive, pretty much the ideal companion to have when you raid the fridge at midnight.
06:22A giant squid over half the length of a football field once washed up on a Florida beach.
06:29Researchers suspected this behemoth came from the Atlantic Ocean near the Bermuda Triangle.
06:36Giant squids are the longest invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone.
06:41They also have the biggest eyes on Earth ever.
06:44They're as large as a soccer ball.
06:48Another creature found near the Bermuda Triangle is Starrer's Cave Shrimp.
06:53They were so good at keeping to themselves that no one knew these creatures even existed until 2011.
07:00Some female cave shrimps carry an impressive number of eggs along with them.
07:05Scientists discovered one female had around 2,000 eggs attached to her body.
07:11The Bermuda Petrel is the national bird of, yes, you guessed it, Bermuda.
07:17It's the second rarest seabird on the planet.
07:20In fact, people thought it was extinct until 1951 when they spotted a few on the island.
07:26It has an eerie cry that'll send shivers down your spine.
07:32The Nassau Grouper can only be found on the coasts of South Florida.
07:37This fish lies in wait and ambushes its lunch of other fish, crabs, and lobsters.
07:44It's sort of like a vacuum cleaner because it inhales its food through its huge mouth.
07:50The fish has a cool defense mechanism, too.
07:53Like the chameleon, it changes color when it feels it's in danger.
07:57Sometimes it takes on a lighter or darker shade of its own color to blend in with the environment.
08:03So, you may spot a Nassau Grouper, or you may not.
08:09If you happen to visit the Bermuda Triangle, you'll probably see a hammerhead shark.
08:15They use that iconic hammer-shaped head to pin their lunch, stingrays, onto the ocean floor.
08:22The shape of their head also gives them better vision.
08:25They can see almost 360 degrees all around, above, and below them.
08:31Well, save for one blind spot right in front of their nose.
08:37The Hawksbill Sea Turtle may not look intimidating,
08:41but this guy will eat anything it can get its bird-like beak around.
08:45Sea sponges, algae, and even venomous jellyfish.
08:49A lot of the stuff on their menu is inedible for most,
08:53but their body fat can absorb the venom and toxins, so they go unscathed.
08:59The Bermuda Triangle is also home to green glowworms.
09:03They're not really worms, but larvae.
09:06They produce that bright light from an organ near their tail.
09:10This light makes smaller creatures come toward them,
09:13making it easy for them to catch their lunch.
09:16Most of the time, they look pretty ordinary,
09:19but they have an oddly fixed schedule.
09:22Every third night, after the full moon, during the summer,
09:26at an exact time, the glowworm lights up.
09:30But back to more nightmarish creatures of the Bermuda Triangle.
09:34There's the goblin shark,
09:36known as a living fossil,
09:39because it's the only one left of its animal family.
09:42It's only about the length of your forearm,
09:45and looks like nothing special.
09:47But watch closely,
09:49as its lunch gets too close.
09:51Boom!
09:52The shark's jaw shoots out of its mouth,
09:55and grabs onto the unlucky creature.
09:58The sky is burning.
10:00The world's oceans are foaming.
10:02Thunder and lightning are shaking the air.
10:05Two of the most terrible and powerful monsters collide in a duel.
10:11A harbinger of the end of the world.
10:13Just the sight of this monster can drive anyone mad.
10:17Great and atrocious Cthulhu.
10:21And the biggest squid on the planet is fighting against it.
10:25A beast that knows no fear,
10:28because it's fear itself.
10:30The cause of a thousand shipwrecks.
10:33The mighty and hideous Kraken.
10:36Let the most epic fight in the history of the universe begin.
10:43You're on a fishing boat,
10:44sailing in a calm ocean.
10:46The water is crystal clear,
10:48and there's no wind.
10:50The sea merges with the horizon.
10:52The land isn't visible,
10:54and you feel free.
10:55You look over the side of the boat,
10:57and notice something strange in the water.
11:01You're floating in the center of a huge black spot,
11:04surrounded by a wide field of green.
11:07What's that?
11:08Oil spilled into the water that took on such a strange hue?
11:13Then why is it so perfectly round?
11:16Suddenly, you realize what it is,
11:18and the blood freezes in your veins.
11:22The black circle is the pupil in the center of a huge green eye.
11:28The thing that's looking right at you from the water right now
11:31is so big that your ship looks like a speck next to it.
11:36It's the Kraken.
11:39But don't worry.
11:40The monster isn't interested in a small prey like you.
11:44The Kraken has been sinking ships for centuries,
11:47and never met any decent resistance.
11:49There are thousands of boats lying on the seafloor.
11:53But what's the point?
11:54The Kraken longs for a real challenge,
11:58but can't find it.
11:59The largest mammal on Earth is the blue whale,
12:02which is no more than a pet goldfish for the Kraken.
12:05Even a megalodon could easily lose to the tentacled beast in battle.
12:10Maybe look for some great monster on the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
12:14No, the pressure is too high,
12:17and there's almost nothing living there.
12:20But then, the Kraken has an idea.
12:24It goes to the most remote place on Earth,
12:27a place rarely visited and poorly explored.
12:31This place is called Point Nemo.
12:33Here, deep below the ocean surface,
12:37lies the ancient city of Relya.
12:40Built long before the appearance of humans,
12:42and amidst the slumbering ruins,
12:45the huge and powerful Cthulhu is dreaming.
12:49This ancient demigod has been resting here for hundreds of millennia.
12:54All this time,
12:56Cthulhu has been waiting for its hour to wreak havoc on Earth.
12:59It's sleeping,
13:01but even in its dreams,
13:03Cthulhu communicates with members of its very own cult following.
13:07It uses telepathy to get into their minds
13:10and make them do atrocious things.
13:13But all of a sudden,
13:15Cthulhu's slumber is interrupted.
13:17Who dares wake it so rudely?
13:20Cthulhu opens its angry red eyes,
13:23overgrown with seaweed,
13:24and sees a huge squid in front of it.
13:27The Kraken has finally found a worthy opponent.
13:32Immediately, it pounces on Cthulhu
13:34and wraps its tentacles around the monster's head.
13:37The fight begins.
13:40Cthulhu heavily pushes off from the seafloor
13:43and rushes to the surface,
13:45dragging the Kraken with it.
13:47Two giant monsters,
13:49larger than the tallest skyscrapers,
13:51emerge from the water.
13:53The sea is raging,
13:54and clouds are gathering over the battlefield.
13:57Enraged,
13:58Cthulhu strikes at the Kraken,
14:00but it doesn't seem to feel anything.
14:02Lightning flashes in the black and churning clouds.
14:06Cthulhu tries to tear the Kraken off itself,
14:09but the squid's tentacles firmly grasp the green monster.
14:13Meanwhile,
14:14you're on your way to Point Nemo
14:16to watch the battle unfold.
14:17You need to sail from the coast of Chile,
14:20and strange things are happening there right now.
14:23Hundreds of sailors are climbing on board dozens of ships.
14:27There are ordinary fishing vessels,
14:29as well as heavily armed and loaded navy ships.
14:32And when you ask anyone where all these people are going,
14:35they all give you a dark look,
14:37and answer,
14:39into eternity.
14:40The Kraken is taking the upper hand,
14:43and Cthulhu calls its followers to help.
14:46It hopes the ships will be able to help defeat the enemy,
14:49but it'll be two days before the first of them arrive from land.
14:54Cthulhu finally tears off the Kraken,
14:56and throws it into the water.
14:58The squid attacks again,
15:00but Cthulhu grabs it by the tentacles,
15:02and lifts it above its head.
15:04Lightning strikes the Kraken,
15:06but it's no more than a spark to the giant monster.
15:10At the same time,
15:12the entranced sailors stand on decks,
15:14and look in the direction of the battlefield.
15:16At night,
15:17they fall asleep,
15:18and see the same dream about the ancient city of Relia.
15:22In the center of it,
15:24there's a twisted chapel,
15:25and inside,
15:27Cthulhu sits on its throne,
15:29calling its followers.
15:31Day and night and day,
15:33the monsters have been fighting each other
15:35with their last strength,
15:37and at last,
15:38tiny dots gather around them.
15:40The ships have arrived.
15:42They're ready to attack the Kraken,
15:44and Cthulhu gives them a mental order.
15:47But the Kraken has its own ace up its sleeve.
15:51It hadn't been sinking ships just for fun.
15:54Very often,
15:55it saved thousands of marine creatures
15:57caught in fishing nets,
15:59and now,
16:00they and their offspring from all over the ocean
16:03come to help the Kraken.
16:05Huge octopuses,
16:07blue whales,
16:08great white sharks,
16:09electric eels,
16:11they're all attacking enemy ships.
16:13Whales are ramming the submarines,
16:15and eels are turning vehicle engines off
16:18with their electric discharges.
16:20Suddenly,
16:21the Kraken dives under the water.
16:23Did it give up?
16:25Got scared?
16:26Not likely.
16:27Cthulhu looks out into the ocean,
16:29and waits for the squid to attack.
16:31The Kraken swims beneath the fighting people and fish.
16:35It starts twisting its tentacles,
16:37creating a huge whirlpool.
16:39The ships are doomed now,
16:42and Cthulhu can only rely on itself.
16:44The Kraken is a powerful creature,
16:48but it's an animal after all.
16:50While Cthulhu is incredibly intelligent,
16:53albeit malevolent,
16:55it understands that the Kraken is a sea monster,
16:57and can be defeated once on land.
17:01Cthulhu's roar shakes the skies.
17:03Lightning bolts strike the ocean.
17:05The water is boiling.
17:07The ancient city of R'lyeh is rising from the bottom of the sea.
17:12The Kraken can't escape here.
17:14It needs water.
17:16The squid fights Cthulhu with the last of its strength,
17:19but without its element,
17:20it quickly loses.
17:23Cthulhu is victorious.
17:26Now, being woken,
17:27it's going to destroy the rest of the world,
17:30as was foretold.
17:32But the fight couldn't have gone unnoticed.
17:35Thanks to satellite data,
17:37the world already knows what's happened,
17:39and a plan has been devised
17:41to put down the ancient monster in case it wins.
17:45Fighter jets enter the scene and attack Cthulhu.
17:48The monster raises its arms to the sky.
17:51Clouds are gathering around it.
17:54An electric discharge sparkles in the clouds,
17:56and electricity disappears within a few hundred miles,
18:00including the electronics on board the jets.
18:03They're falling down into the water.
18:06There's no way to defeat the mythic beast.
18:08But what is it?
18:10Satellites are suddenly falling from the sky in dozens.
18:14Cthulhu didn't know that Point Nemo
18:16is the dumping ground for space debris.
18:19Since this is the farthest point from Earth,
18:22it's safe to drop idle satellites here.
18:25Right now, hundreds of them are falling on the ancient city
18:28and bombarding the monster.
18:31Disoriented by the sudden assault,
18:33Cthulhu retreats back underwater along with its city.
18:37Then and there,
18:38it decides to go back to sleep for another thousand years
18:42and wait for a perfect moment to ruin the world.
18:47Cthulhu's mind-controlling ability
18:49made all the witnesses of the battle forget what they saw.
18:53Humanity is again unaware of the dangers from the depths.
18:57Cthulhu doesn't want people to be ready for its awakening.
19:01If you enter these coordinates in the GPS,
19:04you'll see where Point Nemo is.
19:06In 1997,
19:08oceanographers recorded a mysterious sound from the depths of the sea.
19:12It was called the Bloop
19:14and can be easily found on the internet.
19:17This event led many people to believe in the existence of Cthulhu.
19:21But the panic didn't last long.
19:24It turned out that the Bloop
19:26was the sound of a glacier splitting.
19:28Or maybe it's Cthulhu that made people think that way.
19:32Who knows?
19:36Well, hey there.
19:37We dive back in time and into the oceans
19:40over a half a billion years ago.
19:42Just, you know, because we can.
19:44Whoa!
19:45Watch out!
19:46It's not megalodon or giant sea reptiles
19:49you need to look out for here.
19:50It's a bizarre, unearthly-looking creature
19:53called Anomalocaris.
19:55The name means unlike any other shrimp.
19:58And I think you'll agree,
19:59it looks like a nightmarish cross between a shrimp
20:02and a modern-day centipede.
20:04Two tentacles protruding from its face,
20:07each lined with razor-sharp teeth.
20:09Oh yeah,
20:10and this thing was about the size of your leg.
20:12With a wave-like movement of the flax
20:15on each side of its body,
20:17it was graceful for a terrifying creature.
20:19It was also more advanced than any other life
20:22on this planet at the time.
20:24Especially those huge eyes.
20:27You have only one lens in each of yours.
20:30This giant shrimp had 16,000.
20:32That's four times more than a common house fly.
20:35And you know how good their vision is.
20:37Good enough to dodge that swatter every time.
20:40All this allowed Annie
20:42to become one of the first animals
20:44on this planet to feed on others.
20:46Yep, here it is.
20:47Earth's first hunter.
20:49Its favorite meal?
20:51Trilobites.
20:52Hey, try a bite.
20:53Those are the ancient ancestors of crabs.
20:56Some of their fossils have marks on them
20:58in the same shape
20:59as the monster shrimp's mouthparts.
21:03Terrors of the past like this
21:05got to be so giant
21:06thanks to more oxygen in the atmosphere.
21:09A perfect example of this,
21:11Meganeuropsis.
21:12Imagine a dragonfly.
21:14Now, make it as big as a cat
21:16and with a wingspan longer than your arm.
21:19Megan, the monster-sized dragonfly,
21:22could easily grab other insects
21:24or even small animals.
21:25And she ruled the air with quick movements.
21:28Back then, there were still no large birds
21:31or other airborne enemies for this behemoth bug.
21:34So, it was safe and free to grow
21:36as large as this planet would allow.
21:39Piranhas of the past were also jumbo-sized.
21:43Mega piranha was about three times
21:45the size of the river terrors we have today.
21:47Its bite force was about the same as a tiger's.
21:51And those striped kitties
21:52bite down two times harder than lions.
21:55That means it probably not only dined on other fish
21:58and any land creatures that,
22:00you know, got too close to the water,
22:02but it could also easily crunch down
22:05on large turtles
22:06and other unlucky-shelled creatures.
22:09And fun fact,
22:10modern-day piranhas bark like dogs
22:13when they're about to enter a confrontation.
22:15It actually sounds more like a frog's ribbon.
22:18But, makes you wonder,
22:20what did this mega-sized ancient cousin sound like?
22:24A bear roaring?
22:26How about giant sea scorpions
22:29the size of your bed?
22:30Go back about 460 million years
22:33and you'd see them swimming under you.
22:35And watch out for that tail.
22:37Scientists still don't know
22:39if these creatures could use it
22:40to inject venom like your standard land scorpion.
22:43But, something tells me
22:45I wouldn't want that thing anywhere near me.
22:49Then, there's this guy.
22:52Therizinosaurus.
22:53Terry looks sort of like a goose with long arms.
22:56Oh, and did I mention this goose dino
22:59is about two stories tall
23:01and longer than a bus?
23:02Yow!
23:03Its arms make the T-Rexes look even more bite-sized.
23:07Each 8 feet long,
23:09almost triple the length of T-Rexes.
23:11And on the end,
23:13razor-sharp claws the size of your whole arm.
23:16Now, don't worry about those lengthy claws too much, though.
23:19Terry probably used them
23:21to cut through giant termite nests.
23:23So, this huge reptilian goose
23:25was more interested in eating bugs and plants.
23:29Another mega-monster for you?
23:31Mega-therium.
23:32The giant ground sloth
23:34could look a giraffe straight in the eye
23:36and wade as much as a hippo.
23:38It moved mainly on its hind legs
23:41and used its massive tail as support.
23:44He had huge paws with colossal knife-sized claws.
23:48The sloth could use them
23:50to defend itself from enemies
23:51and to bend tree branches in search of food.
23:54But the biggest danger to the giant ground sloth
23:57wasn't dinosaurs or saber-toothed tigers.
23:59It was our own species.
24:01Yep, humans showed up just in time
24:04to meet this fellow.
24:05And to, um, eat him up.
24:09Titanoboa was a terrifying 50-foot snake,
24:12as long as the great megalodon itself.
24:15It was also more than two times heavier
24:17than the heavyweight champion among snakes today,
24:20the green anaconda.
24:22Crocodiles were a regular on this serpent's menu.
24:26Titanoboa could swim three times faster
24:28than the fastest Olympic swimmer
24:30our species has ever seen.
24:32It was quicker and more dangerous in the water
24:34than outside it.
24:36And don't forget the boa part of its name.
24:39This massive snake wasn't venomous.
24:41Instead, it liked to squeeze.
24:45Remember that giant shrimp from earlier?
24:47Well, opabinia looks like its teeny-tiny finger-sized cousin.
24:52And instead of two toothy tentacles,
24:54this thing had a vacuum hose coming out of its face.
24:58On the end of that trunk,
24:59what looks like a single crab claw.
25:02Add five eyes and a mouth under its head,
25:05and you've got a recipe for something not of this planet.
25:08Only, it is.
25:10This creature used its trunk like an elephant does.
25:13Its claw grabbed food from the bottom of the ocean
25:16and brought it up to its mouth.
25:17This thing is so weird-looking that, apparently,
25:21when the scientists who discovered it
25:23presented his findings to an audience,
25:25they all laughed as if he were joking.
25:28Now, a real-life monster.
25:31The Tully monster.
25:32From a distance, it looks a bit like Nessie.
25:35That long neck and teeth-lined jaws.
25:38But get closer, and you'll see it's more like a long nose
25:42with a mouth attached at the end, like a mosquito.
25:44Its eyes are further back, sticking out of tubes all snail-like.
25:50Tully was an ancient mollusk, about the size of your forearm.
25:54It probably dined on jellyfish and shrimp 300 million years ago.
25:59Thylaccus smilus will put a smile on your face,
26:02as long as you don't get too close.
26:05No, it's not a relative of the saber-toothed tiger.
26:08It was a marsupial, making it more related to a kangaroo than anything.
26:12And if you compare them to body size,
26:15its fangs were actually longer than a saber-toothed tiger's.
26:18And they grew continuously.
26:21As for that beard on its chin, that's actually all chin.
26:24The lower jawbone grew down to a point under the mouth.
26:28Those fangs were rooted to the skull, going way back to its eyes.
26:32When the mouth was closed,
26:34that bony beard protected the long, sharp teeth from breakage.
26:39Staganapolis, not to be confused with Minneapolis,
26:42might look like a big crocodile with a squished-in snout.
26:46But it was mostly harmless.
26:48Its small head and very few teeth
26:50meant the reptile didn't have much to work with when protecting itself.
26:55That's what all those armored scales were for.
26:58And no need for huge fangs or long rows of razor-sharp teeth
27:02when you're a plant-eater.
27:03That beak-like tip on its nose allowed the stag to dig up plants.
27:08So, really, this reptile was more like a 10-foot scaly pig than a croc.
27:14Basilosaurus was a type of ancient whale
27:17that lived on our planet about 45 million years ago.
27:20Not quite as long as a blue whale.
27:22But this guy was still big enough to munch down on other whales and even sharks.
27:27Some people believe these monsters could still exist today.
27:32Eyewitnesses claim to have seen a giant sea dragon.
27:35And Basilosaurus fits the description.
27:38Plus, 90% of our oceans are unexplored.
27:41There's plenty of space to hide a sea monster.
27:44But scientists haven't found any fossils of this ancient whale
27:48younger than 3.7 million years.
27:51So, this myth is busted.
27:55Stegosaurus is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs that ever lived.
27:59It can easily be distinguished by those huge spikes on its tail
28:03and the bony plates on its back.
28:05It was twice as long as a giraffe and nearly 5 times heavier.
28:09But compared to its body size, it had the world's smallest brain.
28:13It was no larger than a dog's.
28:17Pelagornis had the largest wingspan of any bird ever discovered.
28:21It was twice the size of the largest bird today, the wandering albatross.
28:26Such huge wings made it hard for the bird to take off.
28:29It could only do so by jumping off cliffs.
28:33And when it finally spread its wings, this giant could only go about 40 miles per hour.
28:39The fastest bird today can reach speeds 5 times that.