pterosaurs
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Discovery of Flying Reptile Suggests Jurassic Skies Were Busier Than We Thought
Paleontologists found a fossilized pterosaur—a flying reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs—fittingly on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Dubbed Ceoptera evansae, the 165-million-year-old pterosaur is the second one found in Scotland to date and it could clue researchers into how pterosaurs diversified. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, which they used to occupy…
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Pterosaurs Could Somehow Fly Right After Hatching, New Fossils Suggest
New analysis of recent fossil finds suggest that pterosaurs could fly very soon after they hatched, unlike today’s birds or bats.
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This Bizarre Flying Reptile Was No Larger Than A Cat
Scientists working in British Columbia have uncovered the fossils of a small Cretaceous-era pterosaur, showing this extinct flying reptile came in travel size.