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A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago.The jawbone of the ancient reptile was unearthed in Arizona ...
Scientists have found a new species of pterosaur that lived 200 million years ago along with the dinosaurs. The fossilised ...
Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...
Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...
The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly 220 million years ago. A new analysis of fossil maps and computer climate models shows ...
Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 ...