# oa pterosaur fossilfriday sorrymarkwitton pterosaurptuesday paleoart picturingthepastsvp fossils science paleostream sciart

New paper out with and on sharks eating pterosaurs. Artwork by Mark, obviously. https://t.co/iv3w0o7guD

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2018-12-14

In 2013, myself and colleagues named the new azhdarchoid pterosaur Vectidraco daisymorrisae, known only for a small pelvis and some vertebrae. It had been discovered on the Isle of Wight by 5-yr-old Daisy Morris. The paper is https://t.co/wKAqf5RPPe

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2018-11-29

New species from South of France: Mistralazhdarcho maggii https://t.co/OlEkhcHg2k Pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles. This youngster's wings stretched out to about 4,5 m, and could go up to 6 m later in life. Not bad eh? Same family as Quetzalcoatlus!

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2018-10-20

This is Orville, a character from my K: BTS AU and a member of the Dracomatter Squad. He is a Pteromatter, a Dracomatter variant that is themed after pterosaurs. Orville is the group's aerial attack specialist. He is named after Orville Wright of the Wright Brothers.

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2018-10-19

I was very excited to try my hand at the age-old trope of mosasaurs snatching pterosaurs. Probably not gonna work out well for you Pteranodon buddy. Its okay, giant lizards are way cooler than bird-bats with man bodies.

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2018-10-14

For so here is a reconstruction of a foraging mob of Dimorphodon macronyx I did for my upcoming book. It is also one of my three works currently on display at the Picturing The Past exhibition

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2018-10-09

The fossilized skeletons of pterosaurs - which look quite different from any extant flying vertebrate - baffled many early palaeontologists. One early theory suggested that pterosaurs were flying marsupials.

(Credit below)

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2018-10-01

See, dsungaripterids aren't that ugly, after all. Meet Lonchognathosaurus. https://t.co/aGv8TYhN9S

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2018-09-26

Sketches of flappy things.

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2018-08-26

Highlights from the pterosaur Aymberedactylus, Istiodactylus, Normannognathus, Sordes.

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2018-08-18

Finally finished this of Rhamphorhynchus mobbing behaviour - three big adults chase a juvenile for its fish prey. The scene is a complete reworking of the opening image from my 2013 book 'Pterosaurs'. There are lots of other images in that book I'd like to redo.

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2018-08-13

Giant Pterosaurs are the coolest animals ever

1000x scary than a T-Rex because it can swoop on you like a hawk

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2018-08-09

Had a great time chatting with yesterday who kindly offered to make some very much appreciated comments and suggestions on my reconstructions of We had a really interesting conversation!

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2018-08-03

The closest animals were the pterosaurs, whose name literally translates to "winged lizard"

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2018-06-17

Have spent a lot of this week working on a new Jurassic marine life mural (will be released soon), so here's for on the same theme: Jurassic ichthyosaur Ophthalmosaurus, plus bonus pterosaurs.

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2018-06-08

Here are a few of the 30+ Pterosaur species that will appear in my book “Journey To The Mesozoic”: Campylognathoides, Alkaruen, Darwinopterus, Archaeoistiodactylus, Qinglongopterus, Cycnorhamphus & Ctenochasma

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2018-06-05

Arambourgiania was one of the largest pterosaurs, with a wingspan of up to 13 metres!

(Credit: Mark Witton)

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2018-05-29

Our models of how pterosaurs flew may be all wrong, contends a new study: https://t.co/T4biOVTAS3

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2018-05-25

New on Pteros: Carniadactylus lived about 215 million years ago near the northern shore of the ancient Tethys Ocean. https://t.co/4eKpuu9uB9

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2018-05-23

Yixian pterosaurs //

This formation in China is among the richest known site for Cretaceous Period fossils all over the world. It was a lakeside environment with a number of feathered dinosaurs and a variety of pterosaurs that fed on fish.

https://t.co/n5IwBL3H36

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2018-05-21