German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil
Spinosaur fossil bought by Stuttgart institution in 1991 has been the subject of a long restitution campaign
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How we worked out a fossilised ‘pterosaur’ was actually a fish – new research
Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who first recognised pterodactyls as flying reptiles, wrote that “of all the beings whose ancient existence has been revealed to us, [they are] the most extraordinary”.
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Fossil of giant flying pterosaurs found in quarry is nicknamed ‘Abfab’
The wing bone belonged to a flying reptile with a wingspan of around 12ft that lived during the Jurassic period.
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New pterosaur with more than 400 teeth unearthed in Germany
The fossil was found in a limestone quarry in Bavaria during research led by Professor David Martill of the University of Portsmouth.
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