If undaunted by the oysterâs rough, rock-hard, nearly-impossible-to-open shell, the undoubtedly famished first taster would then have confronted the gray, slimy, almost phlegmatic appearance of its plump body.
2 Answers. 0. The largest flying animals that ever lived were members of the Azhadrichidae family of pterosaurs, flying reptiles that lived around the same time as the dinosaurs, though they were not actually dinosaurs. The name Azhadrichidae comes from the word Ajdarxo, a dragon in Uzbek mythology.
1 Elephant bird, native to Madagascar, has been the largest bird in the world known to man through fossil record. 2  It became extinct about 300 years ago. 3  Its height was more than 10 feet (3 meters) and weighed more than 1,120 lbs.