In accordance with the report of the 10th of September made in Santiago, Chile, the newly discovered dinosaur is a Jurassic-era creature, an early pterosaur. The fossils were found by palaeontologists, who worked in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
According to the researchers, the winged “dragon,” which used to inhabit the earth 160 million years ago, had a long-pointed tail, wings and sharp, protruding pointed teeth.
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The remains of such a being had previously only been found in North America. They were unearthed by Osvaldo Rojas, the director of the Atacama Desert Museum of Natural History and Culture.
This amazing founding suggests migration of the species between North and South America, which are thought to have been connected in a supercontinent called Gondwana.
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According to Jhonatan Alarcon, a University of Chile scientist who led the investigation:
“This shows the distribution of the animals in this group was wider than what was known up to now. There are pterosaurs of this group also in Cuba, which apparently were coastal animals, so most likely they have migrated between the North and the South or maybe they came once and stayed, we don’t know.”
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Since the discovery the Atacama Desert has become a hotspot for fossil findings due to the fact that the barren, Martian-looking landscape used to be submerged by sea waters in prehistoric times. All the details about the discovery of a “flying dragon” were published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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Chile's vast Atacama Desert, once largely submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, now looks like a mysterious stale and fruitless desert of a foreign planet on the surface, yet this area hides a lot of treasures, which might help the researchers to paint a more complete picture of prehistoric times.
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The region, parts of which haven't seen rain for decades, is a hot spot for fossil discoveries, with many remains untouched in remote areas not far beneath the desert surface.
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All the details about the discovery of a “flying dragon” were published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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