Sentences with phrase «most pterosaurs»
The specimen is unusual as most pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous were much larger with wingspans of between four and eleven metres (the biggest being as large as a giraffe, with a wingspan of a small plane), whereas this new specimen had a wingspan of only 1.5 metres.
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Although most pterosaur tracks show the animals walking on all fours, the first prints in the newly discovered tracks are of the rear limbs only.
Not exact matches
June 12, 2013 — Brazilian paleontologists Taissa Rodrigues, of the Federal University of Espirito Santo, and Alexander W. A. Kellner, of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, have just presented the most extensive review yet available of toothed pterosaurs from the Cretaceous of England.
«For most of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs, this strike no longer had any effect,» explains Prof. Stinnesbeck.
Dr Witton said: «The specimen is far from the prettiest or most complete pterosaur fossil you'll ever see, but it's still an exciting and significant find.
That distinctive bony projection suggests the pterosaur's most distinct feature may have been a pelicanlike throat pouch that could hold fish gleaned from lakes and rivers, the researchers suggest today in Scientific Reports.
Being soft, most of the pterosaur eggs had flattened during burial and fossilization.
Mention pterosaurs and most people think of those mammoth flying beasts that lived among the dinosaurs.
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.
And in April, scientists discovered fossils belonging to the world's earliest and most primitive pterosaur, a 163 million - year - old find.
«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.