Quetzalcoatlus (Ice Age)

Quetzalcoatlus are minor antagonists in the 2010 animated film Dawn of the Dinosaurs (the third film in the Ice Age films. They were dangerous flying reptiles and one of the few surviving species of pterosaur that lived during the ice age in an underground world.
==Role in the film==
A group of ten Quetzalcoatlus were resting by the Lava Falls. They saw a Pteranodon named Roger passing by, ridden by a weasel named Buck with two opossums named Crash and Eddie. The group of predators immediately took flight to follow them, getting together to attack all at once and when they begin swooping in they startle the three mammals, steering their pteranodon from the falls into a tunnel to escape.
The Quetzalcoatlus continue to pursue their prey flying into a long canyon. Meanwhile their prey up ahead have grabbed explosive berries nearby to defend themselves with and start firing them. Suddenly the flying predators one by one are bombarded and hit by the berries making them fall from the air to the ground. The two groups in the ensuing aerial battle pass by a herd of Brachiosaurus, the Quetzalcoatlus are not troubled by the others falling while they continue to decrease in numbers along the way and dodge the Brachiosaurus.
With half the flock left after two more are down, nearing the end of the canyon: one observant Quetzalcoatlus that was next to be taken out manages to dodge the incoming berries, then it charges ahead with its mouth opening wide to finally eat the possums... only to have the last, most potent berry shot down its throat; the explosion inflating the quetzalcoatlus comically and now it's left as a sputtering balloon. The remaining four Quetzalcoatlus after passing underneath the now inflated unlucky Quetzalcoatlus continue on chasing their prey, exiting the canyon and returning towards the Lava Falls.
Luckily up ahead a lone quetzalcoatlus passing through the area knocks out the pteranodon ahead for them making it easier to finally eat them but soon after the weasel Buck revives their pterodactyl, saving themselves and starts to pull up in front of the falls. Unfortunately, while the mammals were able to fly up away from the lava fall, the last four Quetzalcoatlus didn’t pull up soon enough and crashed into it, getting burned alive.
Previously in the film another specimen was flying down a cliff when suddenly it saw an Archaeopteryx which was falling, and finding it an easy meal, the predator swooped down and ate it. Another was seen by itself when it knocked out Roger, who was chased by the other Quetzalcoatlus.
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