Artist’s rendering of Tupandactylus navigans Victor Beccari
A 100-million-year-old fossil that was confiscated by Brazilian constabulary during a raid successful Sāo Paolo has been identified arsenic 1 of the strangest pterosaurs ever to person lived, with a 50-centimetre-tall caput crest that would person made it hard for the winged reptile to fly.
Pterosaurs, distant relatives of the dinosaurs, were a precise palmy and divers group. The smallest had wingspans of 25 centimetres, portion the largest had wingspans of 10 metres. The alleged tapejarid pterosaurs were neither the largest nor the smallest …
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