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A team led by the Smithsonian has discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur—a small, seagull-sized flying reptile ...
A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...
A flying reptile that hovered over dinosaurs at least 200 million years ago has been discovered. It’s a new species of ...
Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
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Arizona Bonebed Yields North America’s Oldest Pterosaur
A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences introduced Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the earliest pterosaur yet found in North America and among the oldest recorded ...
“Although dinosaurs are found in contemporaneous rocks from Arizona and New Mexico, they were not part of this ecosystem that we are studying,” said paleontologist Ben Kligman of the Smithsonian ...
An artist's depiction of a landscape from 209 million years ago at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, based on fossils of plants and animals ...