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Fossils of the "death dragon" discovered, the largest flying reptile that has ever lived on Earth

2022-06-13 20:14:11Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Fossils of the "death dragon" discovered, the largest flying reptile

Fossil remains of a large flying reptile nicknamed the "Death Dragon", which lived with dinosaurs 86 million years ago, have recently been discovered in Argentina. With a wingspan of about 9 meters, it is the largest pterosaur (whose name means "winged lizard", they are a series of dinosaurs capable of flying) discovered in South America and a of the largest flying vertebrates that has ever lived on our planet.

Researchers noted that the sight of this beast spinning in the prehistoric skies while hunting its prey was certainly a frightening sight.

This terrifying species is estimated to have lived at least 20 million years before the asteroid impact on what is now the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico wiped out about three-quarters of life on planets 66 million years ago.

A team of paleontologists led by Leonardo Ortiz of Cuyo National University in Mendoza has unearthed fossils of a new pterosaur called Thanatosdrakon amaru (Thanatos means death, dragon to dragon) in the Andes, in the western province of Mendoza. in Argentina.

Ortiz explains: “The characteristics of this fossil have never been found before and this leads to the demand not only for a new species, but also for a new genus. It seemed appropriate to call it that. It is the dragon of death. "At the moment there are no other fossil animals that remind us of what has just been discovered."

Referring to fossil record data, paleontologists were able to establish that the reptile lived about 86 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago. According to researchers who published the study in Cretaceous Research, Thanatosdrakon is "the largest pterosaur to cross the South Cretan skies ever discovered." And the research is only at the beginning because the numerous fossils found will be able to show the life habits of the animal and many other features still unknown.

It should be remembered that pterosaurs are neither birds nor bats, but reptiles that flew in the Jurassic and Cretan skies. It is possible that pterosaurs, dinosaurs and crocodiles were related to and belonged to a group known as archosaurs, but this has not yet been confirmed. Pterosaurs have evolved into dozens of species. Behind the insects, they were the first animals to fly, not only gliding, but flapping their wings for takeoff. They had hollow bones that allowed them to carry a weight regardless of their size.


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