Scientists have found the remains of ancient creatures the size of a plane

2018-03-24 10:40

Scientists have found the remains of ancient creatures the size of a plane
Before birds became the owners of the air, this space belonged to the pterosaurs.

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Recently, scientists learned about the flying reptiles of the past a little more. Mining in Morocco allowed us to look behind the screen of more than six billion years, writes Rus.Media.

Previously, researchers believed that pterosaur, about eight billion years ago, turned into a small group of dinosaurs, which soon became extinct.

However, the Moroccan pterosaur fossils described by Nicholas Longreach at the University of BATE, UK, and his colleagues, which, at least five new species, which lived 66-67 million years ago.

Their size ranged from creatures the size of a large eagle, to the giant animal, whose names have not yet determined, with a wingspan of almost 9 meters, which is roughly the size of a small passenger plane.

Analysis of these fossils indicates that, instead of dying out, different types of pterosaur evolved and flourished until the fall of the asteroid was not the cause of catastrophic climate change our planet 66 million years ago.