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The world's largest Jurassic pterosaur - a 170-million-year-old winged reptile - has been found protruding from the rocks of the Isle of Skye.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60407928
PhD student Amelia Penny spotted a sharp-toothed fossilized jaw of a 170-million-year-old Jurassic pterosaur in a layer of ancient limestone on Skye's coast.
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-superbly-pterosaur-fossil-unearthed-scotland.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60407928
PhD student Amelia Penny spotted a sharp-toothed fossilized jaw of a 170-million-year-old Jurassic pterosaur in a layer of ancient limestone on Skye's coast.
Researchers from the Hunterian Museum, in Glasgow, and the Staffin Museum, on Skye, had to extract the rock slab entombing the fossil - a painstaking process and noisy process racing the incoming tide - and bring it to the University of Edinburgh.
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"Pterosaur fossils as complete as this are very rare.
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-superbly-pterosaur-fossil-unearthed-scotland.html