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Friday, December 5, 2008

Ancient Flying Reptile Discovered

It's a bird, NO it's a plane, NO wait a minute, it's a flying reptile!! How would you like to run into one of these while birding?? I know I wouldn't!

Pterosaurs

A flying pterosaur fossil, with a body about the size of an average car, is the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists recently announced...

Click link below to read more:

http://www.livescience.com/animals/081204-new-pterosaur.html

 

1 comment:

Vickie said...

Nice post. Aren't these prehistoric guys amazing?! I visited NC's Natural Science Museum in Raleigh and saw how enormous some of these reptiles were and also our Gray's fossile site in TN. This whole scientific field is amazing.