Sentences with phrase «flying pterosaur»

The researchers used a large - field SEM approach to analyze a shrimp fossil from the Araripe Basin, a place in northeastern Brazil known among paleontologists as a treasure trove of flying pterosaur remains.

Examples of adaptive radiation can be found in: the Galapagos finches, Australia's marsupials, Hawaii's honeycreepers and fruit flies, Madagascar's carnivores and other mammals, New Zealand's birds and the prehistoric flying pterosaurs.

Not exact matches

In its wake arose a group of egg - laying reptile precursors called archosaurs, the common ancestors of dinosaurs, flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, and crocodiles.

The dragon's sheer size dwarfs the biggest pterosaurs, the largest flying animals ever known.

The team compared the thickness of the bones» walls and their resistance to torsion — a twisting force that birds» wings withstand during flapping flight — with similar bones from several dinosaurs, flying reptiles called pterosaurs and modern birds.

Pterosaurs, «winged lizards,» often referred to as «pterodactyls» were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria.

The pterosaur flew just above the water of the tropical lagoon.

The fish leaped out of the water and grabbed the pterosaur by its left wing as it was flying.

High - tech analyses of pterosaur skulls show that the first flying vertebrates packed some sophisticated navigational hardware.

These flying reptiles are shown here not surrounded not by other pterosaurs, but birds.

Pterosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, and the largest fossils are incomplete, so there has been much argument as to how, or whether, they flew.

The flying reptiles remain something of a palaeontological puzzle — some even question whether the largest pterosaurs could fly at all.

The answer, according to Mark Witton of the University of Portsmouth, UK, is that pterosaurs didn't fly like birds.

They portrayed pterosaurs as giant terrors of the skies, flying reptiles who snacked on large prey — and would in theory be dangerous even to humans.

Such membranes are known from flying bats and pterosaurs, as well as in flying squirrels that glide down from the trees.

The flying reptiles remain something of a puzzle, and some palaeontologists even question whether the largest pterosaurs could fly at all.

Pterosaurs: Like dinosaurs, these flying animals are archosaurs (so are crocodiles) and lived during the same timespan.

The other dinosaur tracks include: a sauropod, or long - necked plant - eater; small theropods, crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex; and pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles that included pterodactyls.

Pterosaurs were enormous reptiles (but not dinosaurs) that lived and flew until 65 million years ago.

Up until now the fossil record of pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that soared alongside dinosaurs, has been rather poor.

That suggests, Kellner says, that pterosaurs could walk when they hatched, but not fly.

Previous studies suggested pterosaurs hatched ready to fly.

A spectacular fossil find is providing tantalizing new clues about the habits of pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles that lived at the same times as dinosaurs.

Nevertheless, identification of the new toothy Texas pterosaur deepens a mystery surrounding the flying reptiles: There still is no evidence of close ties between North American and South American pterosaur populations, he said.

Pterosaurs were among the earliest vertebrates to steadily flap their wings to power their flying.

«New North American pterosaur is a Texan, but flying reptile's closest cousin is English: New species marks only the third toothed pterosaur identified from North America's Cretaceous — each one discovered in North Texas.»

pterosaur Any of various extinct flying reptiles of the order Pterosauria.

Mention pterosaurs and most people think of those mammoth flying beasts that lived among the dinosaurs.

Scientists had suspected that the scarcity of little flying reptiles might be due to birds — that the pterosaurs just had trouble competing with them.

The first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs appeared in the Triassic.

Although an extinct group of flying reptiles, called «pterosaurs,» lived during most of this period, scientists had very limited information about this animal, until now.

«This finding represents the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur, a flying reptile in a highly specialized group that includes the largest flying organisms,» Chris Liu, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences and author of the new study, said in a statement.

The collection features such memorable creatures as the oldest known gliding mammal, another early mammal that may have swum with a beaver - like tail, the oldest dinosaurs preserved with feathers and a pterosaur that represents an important transitional form among these now extinct, warm - blooded flying reptiles.

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

After students complete this Pterosaur coloring page, explain that these were not birds but flying reptiles that evolved along with the dinosaurs.