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Scientists say the fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur, billed as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
Scientists say the fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur, billed as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
A fossil jawbone peeking out from a limestone seashore on Scotland's Isle of Skye led scientists to discover the skeleton of a pterosaur that showed that these remarkable flying reptiles got big tens of millions of years earlier than previously known.
A stunning fossil egg has allowed paleontologists to find new clues about a dinosaur’s early development
“What we find is that tyrannosaur embryos would have been the largest hatchlings to ever emerge from an egg, and so they must have had enormous eggs,” paleontologist Gregory Funston, who led a study recently published in Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, told SYFY WIRE. “Our embryo is even larger than that of an Elephant Bird, which had the largest eggs (by volume) of any animal.” Now extinct, the Aepyomis or elephant bird could make an ostrich look like a chicken. This thousand-pound beast stood 10 feet tall and was believed to be the largest bird that ever roamed the planet. Its...