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Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
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The Oldest Reptile Dinosaur in North America Found to Have Flown More Than 200 Million Years AgoThis ancient reptile’s jawbone was unearthed in Arizona in 2011 and was confirmed to be a new species with the aid of modern ...
From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...
Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...
New Triassic fossil features sharp claws and a nasty beak A non-flying precursor to pterosaurs shared the Earth with the first dinosaurs. Jeanne Timmons – Aug 16, 2023 11:08 am ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
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Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouseA study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...
The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were ...
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