A 149 million-year-old pterosaur is Britain’s largest flying animal – how scientists proved it from a single finger bone

Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger bone discovered in southern England in June 2022. These results reveal it to be the largest British pterosaur yet described, and the second-largest Jurassic pterosaur worldwide. This 149 million-year-old fossil, known as EC K2576 and […]

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