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Remains of a "true dragon" were found in Australia - even with a huge mouth and seven-meter-long wings
The pterosaur whose remains have recently been identified has been described as the closest thing to a real dragon.
Its skull reaches a length of a little over a meter, its jaws contain about 40 teeth and its wings reach a length of seven meters
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A fossil of a dragon-like creature - whose skull reaches a length of more than a meter and its wings length of seven meters - was found in Australia and managed to surprise paleontologists.
The fossil belongs to a new species of pterosaur, a winged reptile that was the largest flying animal in history.
The terrifying creature used to patrol the ancient Queensland Sea of Queensland that had dried up since the Cretaceous, more than 100 million years ago - and devour small dinosaurs and fish in its spear-like mouth that contained more than 40 teeth.
Queensland University doctoral candidate Tim Richards led a research team that analyzed a fossil from a creature's jaw.
The fossil found in the state of Vanemara, near Richmond in northwestern Queensland.
"It's the closest thing we have to a real dragon," said Richards, of the dinosaur lab at UQ's School of Biological Sciences. "It was actually just a skull with a long neck and a pair of long wings. That thing was pretty wild. He would cast a big shadow on some scared little dinosaur, who wouldn't hear it until it was too late."
He added: "It's tempting to think that these things would just fly for them in the sky, though, obviously it was not like a bird, or even not like a bat. The pterosaurs were a successful and diverse group of dangerous reptiles."
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The new species belongs to a group of pterosaurs known as angostinripterus, which inhabited every continent during the last part of the dinosaur era. The pterosaurs had thin, hollow bones that helped them fly fast. For us this advantage is a disadvantage because it is more difficult to find preserved remains of a pterosaur, as the chances of the thin bones becoming fossils like the cousins of the pterosaur, the dinosaurs that lived on land, are low. It is therefore quite rare to find the remains of their fossils - and most often when these are found they are not well preserved. "It's pretty amazing that fossils of these animals exist at all," Richards said, "by global standards, Australian pterosaurs' documentation is low, but the discovery of the fungus contributes greatly to understanding Australian pterosaur diversity." It is only the third known species of Pterosaur Angustinripterus from Australia, with all three species coming from western Queensland.
The Petrosaur fossil - the closest thing we had to a real dragon (Photo: Official Website, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND)
Dr. Steve Salisbury, also of the University of Queensland explained that the protruding bone in the creature's upper and lower jaw probably helped him cut the air while flying fast for him. The Supreme, "he said," she probably played a role in the flight dynamics of these creatures, hoping that future research would yield unequivocal answers on the subject. "
"It's pretty amazing that fossils of these animals exist at all" (Photo: GettyImages)
More details about the dragon-like creature:
The fossil was found in a quarry northwest of Richmond, Queensland, back in June 2011 by Len Shaw, who conducted excavations in the area in search of valuable details.
The site was originally home to Australian natives known as Vanemara.
The name Thpongka comes from the children's language and means "here spear".
The name Shawi comes from the family name of the fossil origin.
"So the name means 'here's Shaw's spear,'" Dr. Salisbury said.
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