Amazingly well-preserved fossil depicts a novel flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs
Web edition : Friday, August 24th, 2012
David Hone of the University of Bristol in England has made a career of studying pterosaurs ? flying reptiles from 100 million years ago or more. Several years back, while working in southern Germany, he visited the local Solnhofen Museum along with a lot of other pterosaur experts. As they peered into a glass museum case that held a sandy-colored, fossil-bearing rock, he recalls the scientists saying something like: ?How lovely, another Rhamphorhynchus.? The fossil was nice, but tiny ? and just one of some 120 or so specimens of this pterosaur from about 150 million years ago.
Except that it wasn?t.
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Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343247/title/FOR_KIDS_New_Jurassic_flier
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