Sentences with phrase «giant pterosaurs»

New fossils now indicate some giant pterosaurs probably did dine on bigger prey, such as dwarf dinosaurs the size of a small horse, 70 million years ago on an island that became modern - day Transylvania.

Giant pterosaurs were masters of the air from 108 million to 70 million years ago.

Witton and Habib say that wings of the giant pterosaurs were so powerful that the vaulting mechanism could have launched them from a small clearing without the need for a «runway» or a cliff to leap from.

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The results reveal that pterosaurs had a giant flocculus, a brain region responsible for keeping track of the body's location and for coordinating the movement of the eyes.

It is not clear if these giant finds represent a new species in the pterosaur family, which includes pterodactyls and crested pteradons.

It adds to a growing set of evidence that the Late Cretaceous period was not dominated by large or giant species, and that smaller pterosaurs may have been well represented in this time.

A century of digging found no teeth from giant predatory dinosaurs, a sign that pterosaurs were the biggest and baddest predators on the island.

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.

«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.