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100-million-year-old Pterosaur Fossil Discovered 17

Posted by timothy 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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  • About pterosaurs... (Score:2, Informative)

    by SofaMan ( 454881 )
    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. :)
    • I find it highly illogical people actually believe a delicate fossil could survive for 100 million years. I have an excellent bridge I would like sell anyone who believes such nonsense.
  • The New Scientist depiction looks similar to what Toucan Sam would be, if he was designed by a mad scientist on acid instead of some marketing exec.
  • 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! :)

    • > 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!

      It doesn't sound so bad if you calculate that as a percentage of the dinosaur's age.

    • It took this long to analyze its function, which was published [sciencemag.org] in this week's Science [sciencemag.org] magazine (along with the giant-brained mutant mice, which I thought was a much cooler story.)
  • ...even 100-million years ago life was all about sex... eh, explains it all! :P

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