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Fossil of largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye

• addaon 5y ago
  > And its size "tells us that pterosaurs got larger much earlier than we thought, long before the Cretaceous period when they were competing with birds, and that's hugely significant". This may be true, but "larger" is relative. This "largest Jurassic pterosaur" has a 2.5 m wing span -- comparable to a large RC airplane. In the Cretaceous, ptereosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus and others) exceeded four times that -- 10 m -- comparable to a small plane today.