Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of pterosaur fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/fFvfXvSI8w
Scientists named Alamodactylus after, you guessed it, the Texas symbol of independence otherwise known as the Alamo. https://t.co/qpqOS9Mob4
An amateur paleontologist found this controversial pterosaur in a locality called Bob's Vacation Site in 1991. Its genus name means "chicken" in the Blackfoot language, a nod to its original but mistaken identity as a bird. https://t.co/WS3rtAM0j0
Parapsicephalus' fossil skull is one of the only to include a rare cast of its brain. https://t.co/lFYO78D4lC
Renowned paleontologist Sir Richard Owen named Coloborhynchus back in 1874. https://t.co/uq6i8sofdC
Most members of its family hail from Asia, but paleontologists found Domeykodactylus in Chile. https://t.co/qIENsDhmEC
Found in Cretaceous rocks in Romania in the 1980s, Eurolimnornis was originally thought to be a bird. https://t.co/1znPjELstW
Gnathosaurus, a ctenochasmatid, had 130 needle-like teeth around the edges of a strange spoon-shaped beak. https://t.co/JyS8HlRTZu
Yixianopterus is a mysterious pterosaur from a strange group of flying reptiles known as the lonchodectids. https://t.co/xQ45aO9ibN
Uktenadactylus was named after Uktena, a giant horned snake from Cherokee mythology. https://t.co/ZCY2yMq2NC