Researchers found the remains of an unknown type of Pterosaur - flying reptile on the west coast of North America - a flying reptile that lived on Earth in a later chalk period of about 77 million years ago.
Sample Skeleton is unusual, since most of the pestosaurs existed in those days were much larger (some individuals achieved the size of the giraffe), with the scope of the wings of four to eleven meters, While a new representative of the species, this figure is only 1.5 meters.
Animal fossils consist of a shoulder bone, spine vertebrae and other fragments. The remains of such a creature were first discovered in British Columbia, Canada. Scientists believe that the skeleton belongs to individuals from the superstamism of Ajcharoids - groups of short winged and toothless flying reptiles, spread during the final phase of the evolution of Pterosaurov.
Previous studies have shown that only larger species dominated in the sky in the sky Pterosaurov and other birds, but a new discovery indicates a greater variety of representatives of this species.
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