Paleontologists Find Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Fossil Eroding on a Scottish Beach

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Paleontologists Find Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Fossil Eroding on a Scottish Beach
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The superlative size of Dearc sgiathanach is shifting scientists’ understanding of pterosaur evolution.

A group of paleontologists discovered a large, well-preserved pterosaur on a rocky beach off the coast of Scotland. Boasting roughly an 8-foot wingspan, the ancient reptile is the largest of its kind to be found from the Jurassic Period.Gaelic. It lived about 170 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic, and is the largest flying animal yet known from that far back in time.

The animal’s existence was a chance find made in 2017, when paleontologist Amelia Penney stumbled across the creature’s head while photographing dinosaur footprints on a rocky beach on the Isle of Skye. The pterosaur was promptly sawed out of the rock (with a couple pauses to deal with the tides,

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