Saturday, August 25, 2012

FOR KIDS: New Jurassic flier

Amazingly well-preserved fossil depicts a novel flying reptile from the age of dinosaurs

Web edition : 9:51 am

David Hone of the University of Bristol in England has made a career of studying pterosaurs ? flying reptiles from 100 million years ago or more. Several years back, while working in southern Germany, he visited the local Solnhofen Museum along with a lot of other pterosaur experts. As they peered into a glass museum case that held a sandy-colored, fossil-bearing rock, he recalls the scientists saying something like: ?How lovely, another Rhamphorhynchus.? The fossil was nice, but tiny ? and just one of some 120 or so specimens of this pterosaur from about 150 million years ago.

Except that it wasn?t.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?New Jurassic flier


Found in: Science News For Kids

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343247/title/FOR_KIDS_New_Jurassic_flier

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