The fact that a young girl discovered an entirely new fossil vertebrate species meant that this study received an extraordinary amount of media coverage. The paper itself is here... https://t.co/wKAqf5RPPe (colour art by )

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When I'm not hyper-fixating on fictional relationships, there was a time I fixated on nothing but Pterosaurs

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Because this post is really popular - two more funky pterosaurs - Pangupterus & Guidraco !

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Appearance of gliding fish coincides with first appearance of pterosaurs in the Italian Alps? You know what that means.

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Pterosaurs being crazy weird

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Speculative evolution where sugar gliders evolve to become like pterosaurs idk this is just for fun

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Dragons in Fenrirs wake are more like Pterosaurs than they are lizards. Shame they never seem to leave Svartalfhiem though

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Once upon a time, people promoted the idea that Quetzalcoatlus looked like this... https://t.co/WB1NSII1kl

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Okay so I had no clue that this was a same type of animal thread. Have the wonderful diversity of pterosaurs! Tagging https://t.co/1rm8SvmjT6

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Our initial 2008 proposal was challenged, so we presented new data which further supported the terrestrial stalking model AND which contested a competing 'scoop-netting' proposal. The relevant paper was published 2015 in Acta Pal Pol... https://t.co/E7HrcfUKZo

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Results from the Flocking Together
Thalassodromeus, Leptostomia, Ambulocetus, Tetraceratops.

Unfortunately no mammoth cube today, but there were plenty in chat.

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Never stop sharing your passion. Show off your knowledge of pterosaurs, bird evolution and feathered dinosaurs with these shirts. Available in many sizes and colors.

https://t.co/l4dcDG9lly

Designs by David Orr

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My latest is of Techniques to convey how massive this beast was via art are lowering the horizon, including the smaller in the foreground, and adding pterosaurs flying mid ground. 🦕

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Okay, okay. I’m caving in. I draw a lot of very dead sea bugs and pterosaurs / dinosaurs and stuff.

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Baryonyx may have lived in a semiaquatic environment with shallow water, lagoons, and marshes. It also lived and coexisted with other theropods, ornithopods, and sauropods, as well as pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and fishes. Art by John Sibbick.

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Okay let's lighten the mood now
What's your favorite extinct species?

I really love dinos! I have a lot of favs, so to pick a few I really like amargasaurus and lots if not all pterosaurs!

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Aerodactylus is a genus of pterosaur, containing only a single species, Aerodactylus scolopaciceps. While the name means "wind finger," it was given the name based on the Pokemon, Aerodactyl. The Pokemon, is a combination of many types of toothed pterosaurs, dragons and wyverns.

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Eustreptospondylus fed on smaller dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and scavenged the carcasses of fishes, marine reptiles, and other animals. Art by Dmitry Bogdanov.

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Macho de Darwinopterus modularis último ejercicio del II Encuentro Virtual del arte y la ciencia de los fósiles. Voces y visiones hispanoamericanas del pasado profundo organizado por el MIC, Quito, Ecuador.

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Warning - cute pterosaurs. Darwinopterus and Fenghuangopterus from the Tiaojishan Formation. (I might have some exciting news lined up for next week, be on a lookout!)

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