Tiny, Winged Dinosaur was Size of a Cat

Researchers are describing what could be a new species of flying dinosaur that was about the size of a cat. The partial remains of the diminutive pterosaur that lived about 77 million years ago, were discovered in 2009 in British Columbia. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates that could fly. “This new pterosaur is exciting because it suggests that small pterosaurs were present all the way until the end of the Cretaceous, and weren’t out competed by birds,” said lead author of the...

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