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A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...
A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...
The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...
A flying reptile that hovered over dinosaurs at least 200 million years ago has been discovered. It’s a new species of ...
Scientists have identified a flying reptile species that lived around 209 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.
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Arizona Bonebed Yields North America’s Oldest Pterosaur
A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...
This ancient reptile’s jawbone was unearthed in Arizona in 2011 and was confirmed to be a new species with the aid of modern ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
The new type of pterosaur, named Eotephradactylus mcintireae, was identified by a Smithsonian-led research team, according to ...
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences introduced Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the earliest pterosaur yet found in North America and among the oldest recorded ...