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What have you got in your hands? what does it show you? i'm holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it's slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, which is more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. you can see how well adapted to flying it is. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. it's so charismatic, look at it. we walked in jurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with this same research team back in 2015. and you can see the toes... fossilised depressions left by giant sauropods, the biggest an...

The head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing. x—ray scans of the skull have revealed even more detail. i'm holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it's slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, but it's more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. we walked injurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with ...

Years, the teeth and bones of a jurassic reptile. after racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. here they've revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that they've named �*dearc sgiathanach' — gaelic for "winged reptile". i think it's a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we removed the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing....

After racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. here they've revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that they've named �*dearc sgiathanach' — gaelic for "winged reptile". i think it's a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we removed the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing. x—ray scans of the skull have revealed even mor...

I'm holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it's slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, but it's more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. we walked injurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with this same research team back in 2015. and you can see the toes. fossilised depressions left by giant sauropods, the biggest animals ever to walk the earth. and this fossil, the researchers say, is the largest pterosaur from that same period. this is the average si...