Meet The Quetzalcoatlus, The Giraffe-Sized Pterosaur That Was The Largest Flying Dinosaur To Ever Live

Douglas Lawson had been a geology graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin when he discovered the first bone at Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. He named the genus after the feathered Quetzalcoatl serpent god from Aztec myth — and the species northropi after aircraft pioneer John Northrop.