How we worked out a fossilised ‘pterosaur’ was actually a fish – new research
Artist's impression of a pterosaur with a fish in its mouth. Fossils of one have sometimes been mistaken for the other. Warpaint/Shutterstock Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognised pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that “of all the beings whose ancient existence has been revealed to us, [they are] the most extraordinary”. Now […]
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