🔬 Delving into prehistory, we uncover the resilience of pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates, surviving in the polar climates of ancient Australia. 🌍 An enigma waiting to be unraveled - did they migrate or adapt to the extreme conditions? 🧩
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsThe adaptable pterosaur – the first flying vertebrate – lived in dark, polar conditions in what is now Australia, according to a. The research identified two pterosaur bones more than 30 years after their initial discovery.
“Despite these seasonally harsh conditions, it is clear that pterosaurs found a way to survive and thrive,” says Adele Pentland, a researcher at Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Western Australia, in a Pterosaurs belong to the archosaur family, along with dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds, to which they’re related. Paleontologists have identifiedof pterosaurs, including some with paper-thin bones and long, skinny fingers. The first, found in Germany in the late 1700s, predated the discovery of the dinosaurs by a half century.
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