200 million year-old jawbone revealed as new species

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Victoria Gill

Science correspondent, BBC News

Smithsonian The image is an artist's impression of the ancient winged reptile that scientists have discovered at a site that, 200 million years ago, was a riverbed. The image depicts a creature with a long, pointed jaw and wings folded in at its sides. It has its clawed feet submerged in the water of the river and appears to have caught a small amphibian in its mouth. — The new pterosaur has been named Eotephradactylus mcintireae, meaning ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’

Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the…

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