At the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, the fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile that lived around 76 […] ...
Dr. Caleb Brown from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is the lead author of a recently published paper revealing an ...
"This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare," Dr Brown, lead author of the paper, said. The punctured vertebra is ...
The paper also says this bone is the first evidence in North America of ancient crocodilians opportunistically feeding on these giant prehistoric flying reptiles. Other examples of Azhdarchid ...
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 ...
This is the first evidence in North America of ancient forms of crocodile feeding on these giant prehistoric flying reptiles. Other examples of Azhdarchid bones with similar bites have been found ...
Giant pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li have made their public debut on Friday after three months of adapting to their new life in Washington DC's Smithsonian National Zoo. They arrived in the US in ...
A scan of the bone found that the edges of the puncture don’t match the break points on the rest of the bone, meaning it wasn’t caused during the fossilization process, and cemented and compacted ...
"This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare." The fossilized neck bone belonged to a young azhdarchid pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of two metres. An adult azhdarchid pterosaur ...
Left: An illustration of a pterosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Right: The neck vertebra of cryodrakon boreas is on display in the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s Fossils in Focus exhibit, where visitors can ...