New Pterosaur Species Unearthed in Lebanon
www.sci-news.com/paleontology/mimodactylus-libanensis-07872.html
Here via the appearance on my tumblr feed of the wonderful allosuchus’ reblogging of alphynix’s post.
Source: scinewscom
Ooh, I just love this… whenever new pieces of the puzzle are found I get a thrill.
You simply must know that there were at least as many species of all forms of life around back then as there are now… and due to the conditions present in those days potentially a lot more than exist today … the scarcity is simply because fossilization is not a common occurrence. Not in the least.
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A Dillingham pilot says he spotted the creature while flying passengers to Manokotak last week. He calculated that its wingspan matched the length of a wing on his Cessna 207. That’s about 14 feet.
As of 23 January, 2022, there are 19,944! (wait, whAT?! 
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← This sequence is cropped (and looped) from the last 10 frames of the video captured on Sol 6 by a camera on the lander for NASA’s Mars Pathfinder rover. Not enough pixels, but still, mighty impressive. This evidence was discovered -way- back in the day by 
