but rested on the beaches and rocky caves along the coastline

suggesting that it may have been an opportunistic predator

well-developed supraorbital horns

and gigantic skull crowned by a powerful

Kentrosaurus (K

Hatzegopteryx thambema Variant:Hand-painted but rested on the beachesHatzegopteryx thambema was one of the largest known pterosaurs and a dominant predator in the Late Cretaceous island ecosystems of Europe. It lived approximately 72 to 66 million years ago on Haeg Island, an archipelago in the ancient Tethys Sea, now part of the Transylvania region of Romania. This animal belonged to the azhdarchid group, giant pterosaurs characterized by elongated skulls, extremely long necks, and large wingspans. Size estimates