Pterodactylus (Quetzalcoatlus northropi), also known as the flying pterosaur, is one of the representative genera of the order Pterosauria and the first pterosaur to be named.Wingspan: The wingspan of Quetzalcoatlus was 50 cm, and the wingspan of Pterodactylus was 2.4 meters.Living period: Late Jura...
Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs are two different paleontological taxa. Although pterosaurs and dinosaurs lived in the same geological period and were both animals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, they belong to different groups. The following is a detailed int...
The world's first pterosaur egg and embryo fossil was discovered in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota in western Liaoning, my country, about 121 million years ago. It is also one of the three pterosaur eggs that have been discovered in the world. Since the discovery of pterosaur fossils 220 ye...
As the earliest vertebrate with active flight capabilities, the macroevolution of pterosaurs has received widespread attention in the academic community. The evolutionary history of pterosaurs can be roughly divided into two stages, namely a 115 million year period of prosperity and a 65 mill...
We already know that based on the development of the temporal part of the skull, that is, the relationship between the development and changes of the temporal foramen, scientists divide reptiles (classes) into four subclasses, namely Anosus, Monossus, and Platysus. and Dicypodia. On this basi...
On February 16, 2017, Scientific Reports published an article by Wang Xiaolin’s research team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiang Shunxing and Cheng Xin, and Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Wang Xiao...
The Xinjiang Hami scientific expedition team led by researcher Wang Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, after more than ten years of continuous field scientific...
The Luoping Fauna is a group of biological fossils preserved in the early Middle Triassic strata in the Luoping area of Yunnan, my country. Similar fossil assemblages are also found in Panxian, Guizhou, and are also called Panxian Fauna. For a long time, abundant marine life fossils have been found...
Huge prehistoric creatures once lived on the earth. They were ferocious and terrifying, even bigger and more ferocious than dinosaurs. When I see them, I just want to be glad that they don't live with humans for a century, otherwise they could make humans extinct. First p...
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