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A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof.. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...
Pteranodon (/ t ə ˈ r æ n ə d ɒ n /; from Ancient Greek: πτερόν, romanized: pteron ' wing ' and ἀνόδων, anodon ' toothless ') [2] [better source needed] is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over 6 m (20 ft).
Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments and was described as Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by Douglas Lawson.
A 2016 archosauromorph-focused study by Martin Ezcurra included various proposed pterosaur relatives, yet also found pterosaurs to be closer to dinosaurs and unrelated to more basal taxa. [134] Working from his 1996 analysis, Bennett published a 2020 study on Scleromochlus which argued that both Scleromochlus and pterosaurs were non-archosaur ...
Pterodactylus (from Ancient Greek: πτεροδάκτυλος, romanized: pterodáktylos ' winged finger ' [2]) is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.
SAO JOAO DO POLESINE, Brazil (Reuters) -Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million ...
Fossils from a newly discovered species of mammal in Colorado may offer clues into how life rebounded after Earth’s last mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, researchers say.
Pterosaurs, extinct non-dinosaurian flying reptiles; Archaeornithes, extinct primitive flying bird-like dinosaurs, e.g. Archaeopteryx; Neornithes, modern birds which are the only surviving dinosaurs; Scansoriopterygidae, an extinct family of climbing and gliding dinosaurs; Other (extinct) members of the clade Avialae, perhaps also other ...