Dino days

Look: Rare fossil represents the largest Jurassic pterosaur ever found

by Jennifer Walter
Pterosaurs flying
Natalia Jagielska

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For all the attention pterosaurs receive, we’ve uncovered very little about their actual lives.

These magnificent beasts appeared in the Triassic period as Earth’s first flying vertebrates.

And a newly-discovered fossil is revealing just how big pterosaurs got.

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