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100-million-year-old Pterosaur Fossil Discovered

Posted by timothy on from the big-weird-head dept.

choka writes: "According to Wired news, A 100-million-year-old skull of one of the weirdest creature has been discovered in Brazil. The fossilised pterosaur skull belongs to one of the world's first flying vertebrates and its head measures 4.5 feet long due to the size of its GIANT crest. The story is here. New Scientist has pictures."

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  1. About pterosaurs... by SofaMan · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fossilised pterosaur skull belongs to one of the world's first flying vertebrates

    I don't think this is accurate. The article states that the skull is only 100 million years old, and pterosaurs had been around since about 225 million years ago.

    Damn freaky looking thing though. :)

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  2. News as always by Stary · · Score: 2
    Slashdot. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

    According to Wired news, A 100-million-year-old skull of one of the weirdest creature has been discovered in Brazil.

    Now, according to the article:
    The 100-million-year-old skull was discovered in 1983 in Brazil

    I mean, ok, slashdot is usually a bit behind but this reaches new heights... You're 19 years late guys! :)

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    1. Re:News as always by Peter+T+Ermit · · Score: 2, Informative

      It took this long to analyze its function, which was published in this week's Science magazine (along with the giant-brained mutant mice, which I thought was a much cooler story.)