US Edition'Our Hearts Stopped': Scientists Find Baby Pterosaurs Died in Violent Jurassic Storm 150 Million Years Ago
Analysis of two hatchling Pterodactylus antiquus fossils reveals they died from wing fractures caused by storm winds, explaining the fossil record's juvenile bias at Solnhofen.
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Baby Pterosaurs Got Absolutely Wrecked by Violent Jurassic Storms
A pair of fossilized baby pterosaurs, nicknamed Lucky I and Lucky II, are telling paleontologists all about what the weather was like 150 million years ago, and it was nasty. Their multi-epoch-spanning chit chat about the weather begins in what is now southern Germany, in a fossil goldmine known as the Solnhofen Limestone, a prehistoric lagoon turned limestone quarry famous for preserving everything from early birds to tiny flying reptiles in in…
It happened 150 million years ago, they had broken wings (ANSA)
Two young pterosaurs died during a raging storm in southern Germany 150 million years ago. The article "Tiny pterosaurs died during a storm in southern Germany 150 million years ago" comes from the website Wszystko co mojego.
Fossils reveal baby pterosaurs that perished in violent storm 150 million years ago
New Delhi: About 150 million years ago, a pair of baby pterosaurs perished in a lightning storm. The cause of death has been revealed by careful analysis of fossil remains examined by palaeontologists from the University of Leicester in UK. The same storm also created the conditions necessary to preserve their fossils, along with 100s of others. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, but were not dinosaurs themselves…
Throughout the ages, fossils tell us stories frozen in stone, but rarely with as much detail as those recently revealed in Bavaria. Some prehistoric remains seem to have passed through time in an almost unreal state of conservation. Among them, two young pterosaurs today reveal the traces of a 150 million-year-old weather drama. A discovery that sheds light as much on the fossilization mechanisms as on the life of these flying reptiles. When a J…
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