![]() ![]() “That would be hugely informative and would really test a lot of our hypothesis about what these big animals look like based on the small ones,” Brown said. ![]() One of Brown’s personal goals is to obtain a permit and go out into the national park to find the rest of the animal and collect it. Brown said he wants to pick up where Douglas Lawson, a former geology graduate student at the University of Texas who discovered the original bones in 1971, left off. Scientists have fairly complete skeletons of the smaller species, but only a portion of the original Quetzalcoatlus body. They were way bigger than the pterosaur, Nemicolopterus, which had a wingspan of only 10 in (25 cm). The Quetzalcoatlus wingspan was about 38-39 ft (11-12 m). The ancient reptile had a wingspan of up to 40 feet and had hollow bones to help it fly in the sky, according to. Researchers found about 30 of the flying animals together at a fossil excavation. Quetzalcoatlus species are considered one of the largest flying reptiles that the world has known. The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus was the largest known flying animal that ever lived. The smaller Quetzalcoatlus was much more social and would spend time in large groups. This reptile species also tended to hunt alone. The larger Quetzalcoatlus would have likely used its narrow beak to forage for crabs and worms along the water, according to the research collection. The animals lived in a forest oasis over 70 million years ago in what is now Texas, which was home to many bodies of water. The smaller of the two new species has a blunt beak while the larger species has a long, thin, beak that comes to a point. Adam Marsh/National Park Serviceģ00 million-year-old fossil skeleton in Utah could be the first of its kind Scientists collect a 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton at Canyonlands National Park. ![]()
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