Flying Reptile The Size of A Small Airplane

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a New Zealand Herald article about a pterosaur that has been discovered to have an almost 18 meter wingspan. From the article: "A Spitfire has a wingspan of 11m and has to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Pterosaurs did it on a diet of fish and a superb ability to utilise air currents, thermals and ground effects. There is nothing close to pterosaurs alive today. Pterosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, they left no descendants and we don't know quite what their closest relative was."

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Here be dragons

[tod_miller]

That is true, except for the komoni dragon, which I do not know when it was named, and can't be fecked to 'pedia it, where did dragons come from?

Perhaps the whole idea is based more on fact.

How soon before bringing back dinosaurs from DNS for films is cheaper and more trilling for audiences than CGI?

hrm.

PETA (nazis) will need to expand some.