The world of millions of years ago still continues to be illuminated by new discoveries. One of these discoveries, in which fossils play a major role, took place today. Scientists have discovered a huge flying Pterosaur fossil that will be the first of its kind. The fossil would also change some of the known facts about this class.
The species in the Pterosaur class, discovered according to the information obtained by examining the fossil, was named ‘Dearc sgiathanach’. The discovered fossil, with a wingspan of more than 2.5 meters, became the largest flying creature of its time. Moreover, this fossil was not an adult individual of this species. The fossil belonged to a young member of the species. This indicated that the species may actually have a much larger wingspan.
The fossil showed that the estimates were wrong:
The new member of the Pterosaur class, which is home to the largest known flying animal species today, existed 170 million years ago according to estimates. continued. This led to the understanding that the period when the Pterosaur class was supposed to start flying was actually much earlier. Live pushed the estimates back to 25 million years ago.
The fossil has survived to the present day in a very well preserved condition despite a period of 170 million years. Unfortunately, no significant bone fragments were found in the fossil, of which 70% was preserved. Scientists think they will get more detailed information about the period from the fossil.
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