New Pterosaur Species Unearthed in Lebanon: Mimodactylus libanensis


Dec 4, 2019

Paleontologists in Lebanon have discovered the extremely well-preserved fossilized remains of a previously unknown Cretaceous-period flying reptile.

Pterosaurs were highly successful flying reptiles — not dinosaurs, as they’re commonly mislabeled — that lived at the same time as nonavian dinosaurs, between 210 million and 65 million years ago.

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology...sis-07872.html