News tagged with pterosaurs
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Pterosaur-inspired aircraft makes sharper turns
(PhysOrg.com) -- By morphing and repositioning a small aircraft's vertical tail to resemble the cranial crest of a pterosaur, researchers have shown that the aircraft's turn radius can be reduced by 14%. The ...
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Toothed pterosaur: Tiny fossil fragment reveals giant-but-ugly-truth
New research from the Universities of Portsmouth and Leicester has identified a small fossil fragment at the Natural History Museum, London as being part of a giant pterosaur – setting a new upper limit ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 13, 2011 |
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10,000 miles: New study proposes giant Pterosaurs were record long-distance fliers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests four species of ancient pterosaurs might have been able to soar as far as 16,000 km nonstop, making them the longest distance fliers in the Earth's history.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Experts reaffirm asteroid impact caused mass extinction 65 million years ago (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Responding to challenges to the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused a mass extinction on Earth 65 million years, a panel of 41 scientists re-analyzed data and provided new evidence, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Ancient Flying Pterosaur Also Sailed Seas (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tapejara was an excellent flyer that also had an innate nautical knowledge of sailing.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 19, 2009 |
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'Missing link' pterosaur found in China
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile - providing the first ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air with sparrow- to Cessna-sized wingspans. Researchers suspected that these extinct ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Four, three, two, one... pterosaurs have lift off
Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Preserved bone of Pterosaur found in stomach of Velociraptor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a bone from a pterosaur (giant flying reptile or 'pterodactyl') in the guts of the skeletal remains of a Velociraptor (small predatory theropod dinosaur) that l ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Asian 'phoenix' lived with the dinosaurs
Palaeontologists said on Wednesday they had found the fossilised remains of a giant bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago, a finding which challenges theories about the diversity of ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 10, 2011 |
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The rise and rise of the flying reptiles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the time of the dinosaurs, were not driven to extinction by the birds, but in fact they continued to diversify and innovate for millions of years afterwards.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Rare 89 million-year-old flying reptile fossil from Texas may be world's oldest Pteranodon
Fossilized bones discovered in Texas from a flying reptile that died 89 million years ago may be the earliest occurrence in the world of the prehistoric creature known as Pteranodon.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Terrifying pterosaurs were fragile in flight
Pterosaurs, the largest creatures ever to take to the skies, were adept fliers in a balmy breeze but would have crashed in stormy weather, according to a study published Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Prehistoric winged beasts 'pole-vaulted' into flight (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controversial claims that enormous prehistoric winged beasts could not fly have been refuted by the most comprehensive study to date which asserts that giant pterosaurs were skilled in flight.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Rare 95 million-year-old flying reptile Aetodactylus halli is new genus, species of pterosaur
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 95 million-year-old fossilized jaw discovered in Texas has been identified as a new genus and species of flying reptile, Aetodactylus halli.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 26, 2010 |
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