Fossilized "Dragon of Death" discovered in Argentina

Less pursuit predator than browsers/grazers as the idea.

Depending on the species seems to be grasslands or wetlands, some evidence of thin/mixed forest environments.

Stalking through open areas rousting critters and snapping them up, pulling shit out of burrows. That sort of thing.

IIRC existing trackways show these guys were pretty fast, and they’d have to be to take off. So I think it’s more sprinting than chasing shit down.

That’s the hook that makes it work for me. If you imagine these things plodding around an open space, shoving their noses into bushes and ponds

Only flying for travel or escape, not generally hunting on the wing.