Sentences with phrase «suggests pterosaurs»

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

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.

Previous studies suggested pterosaurs hatched ready to fly.

But in recent years, scientists have discovered specimens that suggest pterosaurs grew larger as they evolved.

Not exact matches

Such mature features suggest that, like modern chickens, ducks, and turkeys, pterosaurs probably could fend for themselves soon after hatching.

Previous studies suggest that the Late Cretaceous skies were only occupied by much larger pterosaur species and birds, but this new finding, which is reported in the Royal Society journal Open Science, provides crucial information about the diversity and success of Late Cretaceous pterosaurs.

Lead author of the study Elizabeth Martin - Silverstone, a Palaeobiology PhD Student at the University of Southampton, said: «This new pterosaur is exciting because it suggests that small pterosaurs were present all the way until the end of the Cretaceous, and weren't outcompeted by birds.

Earlier this year Habib suggested that the largest pterosaurs took flight by using all four limbs to leap into the air — a technique similar to that used by some bats but quite unlike the take - off behaviour of modern birds.

The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China suggests to some researchers that pterosaur parents may have cared for their newly hatched young.

The pattern suggests a landing from the air, with the pterosaur touching down simultaneously with both feet and dragging its toes with the forward momentum.

He suggests that a swimming pterosaur could have made the first parallel prints when it planted its feet as it reached shore.

Palmer's study also suggests that the floppy pterosaur had a hard time navigating strong winds, unlike albatrosses that plunge into storms and surf strong breezes.

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.

And it suggests to some researchers that pterosaur parents may have cared for their newly hatched young.

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

Pterosaur relatives from two continents suggests the prehistoric creatures moved between North America and England earlier in the Cretaceous — despite progressive widening of the North Atlantic Ocean during that time.

Pterosaur relatives from two continents suggests the prehistoric creatures moved between North America and England earlier in the Cretaceous — despite progressive widening of the North Atlantic Ocean during that time, says SMU paleontologist Timothy S. Myers.

Newly discovered pterosaur fossils suggest a smaller species of the dinosaur order that could have implications for the extinction that took place at the end of the Cretaceous period.

The bones revealed that the pterosaurs died at different times, which suggests multiple forces — not a single event — were at play.