Sentences with phrase «pterosaur life»

This study also offers a slice of pterosaur life history that is out of reach of fossil evidence, suggesting that the reptiles lived within easy access of warm thermal wind currents near open spaces of land or near the ocean.

According to Andres, the area was a flood plain during the time the pterosaur lived.

The large collection of fossils suggests pterosaurs lived together in large, gregarious colonies.

Not exact matches

The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur.

Pelagornis sandersi was twice the width of a wandering albatross — the largest living bird — but was nevertheless dwarfed by the biggest pterosaurs

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

Without a living analogue, the mechanics of pterosaur take - off, flight and landing, have been part conjecture and part theory.

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

«You've captured the life history of pterosaurs,» Unwin says.

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.

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

Pterosaurs were a Cretaceous period reptile that lived some 228 to 66 million years ago.

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.

Pterosaurs are the earliest known vertebrates to have evolved powered flight and lived during the Early Cretaceous period.

Pterosaurs («winged lizards») hold a special place in the history of life on Earth: They were the first creatures, other than insects, to successfully populate the skies.