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08-15-2018, 09:28 AM
Caelestiventus hanseni: Newly-Discovered Triassic Pterosaur Lived in Harsh Desert

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Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected desert-dwelling pterosaur that lived in what is now Utah, the United States, about 210 million years ago. The discovery of this early pterosaur, reported in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, sheds new light on early pterosaur anatomy and development.

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