Oldest pterodactyloid species discovered: Primitive flying reptile took wing 163 million years ago
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 17:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientists have discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid -- a group of flying reptiles that would go on to become the largest known flying creatures to have ever existed -- and established they flew above Earth some 163 million years ago, longer than previously known.