A recently discovered species of prehistoric pterosaur had a 24-inch jaw full of sharp teeth and a wingspan of up to 40 feet. The fossils of this pterosaur were found in the outback of western Queensland, Australia. It is the most complete set of pterosaur bones ever found in Australia, and the species has been dubbed Haliskia peterseni. PhD candidate Adele Pentland and her team from Curtin University described H. peterseni as a sort of "demonic pelican" in the paper published in the journal Scientific Reports/Springer Nature. You can imagine the prey this reptile could hold in those jaws.
Pterosaurs are the first vertebrates to fly, before birds ever existed. The specimen of H. peterseni under study lived around 100 million years ago. Read more about this new discovery at ABC. -via Strange Company
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