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Aerodactylus (meaning "wind finger") is a pterosaur genus containing a single species, Aerodactylus scolopaciceps, previously regarded as a species of Pterodactylus.. The fossil remains of this species have been found only in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany, dated to the late Jurassic Period (early Tithonian), about 150.8–148.5 million years ago. [1]
Six pterosaurs (top left to bottom right): Dimorphodon, Pterodactylus, Anurognathus, Quetzalcoatlus, Sordes, Tropeognathus Scientific classification; Domain ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis.
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
Like other pit viper species but unlike most snakes, rattlesnakes don't lay eggs. Instead, they give birth to live young. Eight is an average-size brood, with the number depending on the snake's ...
Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáktylos) "finger") [2] is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.
Red whip snake (Platyceps collaris) Elegant racer (Platyceps elegantissimus) LC; Roger's racer (Platyceps rogersi) [1] LC; Sahara racer (Platyceps saharicus) LC; Sinai racer (Platyceps sinai) [1] NT; Dayan's kukri snake (Rhynchocalamus dayanae) Palestine kukri snake (Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus) Blotched diadem snake (Spalerosophis diadema ...
The snake returns in the Book of Exodus when Moses turns his staff into a snake as a sign of God's power, and later when he makes the Nehushtan, a bronze snake on a pole that when looked at cured the people of bites from the snakes that plagued them in the desert.