New #pterosaur species discovered in previously overlooked specimen of dinosaur regurgitalite.

The discovery also offers a glimpse into ancient food chains in the region. The regurgitalite is fairly clear evidence of pterosaurs serving as prey to larger dinosaurs.
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pterosaur-species-previously-overlooked-specimen.html #dinosaurs #globalmuseum #fossils

Is there any herbivorous pterosaur in the deep time?

Pterosaur is the first group of vertebrates with powered flight. It originated in the Late Triassic and became extinct with dinosaurs (excluding birds) at the end of the Cretaceous. Various diets of pterosaurs were proposed using different interpretations, such as content fossils and comparative anatomy. However, the understanding of the diets of many pterosaurs have still been on debate, which is mainly because of the rarity of stomach content found in pterosaurs. In this paper, the researchers found an elliptical content in the stomach position of a Sinopterus specimen. They extracted more than 300 phytoliths from the stomach content but none from the matrix of the same specimen. This demonstrates that these phytoliths, firstly appeared in pterosaurs, were eaten by this Sinopterus rather than any pollution after its death. Phytolith is a microstructure produced by all kinds of plants, and it varies among different plants and different positions of the same individual. Besides the phytoliths, many gastroliths (stones within the body cavity) were also discovered in the stomach content, which is the second pterosaur specimen with gastroliths. The combination of phytoliths and gastroliths, without any bones, scales or exoskeletons, strongly suggest that Sinopterus is herbivorous.

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Wing Designs
Cuz I'm bored. 1. Dragon wing 2.Bird wing 3. Pterosaur wing 4. Bat wing 5. Pegasus wing 6. Butterfly wing 7.Insect wing #wings #design #pencil #pencilart #sketch #sketches #charcoal #dragon #bird #pterosaur #bat #pegasus #butterfly #insect #penup
Painting of a quetzalcoatalus on the beach.



Prints are available on my Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DragonArtist15/shop

#paleoart #pterosaur #quetazalcoatalus #digitalart #digitalpainting

'Our hearts stopped': Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent #Jurassic storm 150 million years ago.

Researchers found storm injuries during a baby #pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/our-hearts-stopped-scientists-find-baby-pterosaurs-died-in-violent-jurassic-storm-150-million-years-ago #globalmuseum #fossils

Model of a Dimorphodon pterosaur skull on display in the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall. This 1:1 model has been placed on top of an original copy of Richard Owen's monograph describing Dimorphodon. Specifcally, on a page that folds out to reveal a 1:1 illustration of the whole skeleton.

#FossilFriday #pterosaur #paleontology #fossil #NottNatHist

Pterodaustro sculpt I sculpted in zbrush and 3D printed in resin. I based the colouring off of a spoonbill.



The 3D model can be viewed/downloaded here: https://www.printables.com/model/1334350-pterodaustro-figurine

#pterodaustro #pterosaur #paleoart #3dmodel #3dprinting #resinprint #sculpture

“A 3D animation showing the 3 stages of a #Pterosaur Quadrupedal Launch Animation (Stance, Vault, Launch). Direct Dimensions Laser Scanned and Digitally Modeled the castings of the 8-foot Pterosaur skeleton. Johns Hopkins' student Julia Molnar animated the fossil showing the launch sequence from multiple views and speeds, and also a diagram of the Launch Trajectory power output."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALziqtuLxBQ

Quadrupedal Launch in Pterosaurs Animation

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Sordes pilosus was a non-pterodactyloid #pterosaur from the late #Jurassic from what is now Kazakhstan! ✨

#sordespilosus #sciart #paleoart #paleocartoon #paleocartoonist #pterosaurs