About 77 million years ago, something brought about something from a young Iksang South.
The nurses were a flew to fly around the sky of the earth when the dinosaur ruled the earth. Some species were giants. But even the big size did not fall far from the menu.
Paleontologists have now found teeth on their neck spine in Alberta. In a paper published in Paleontology Journal last week, they suggest that teeth have taken young pterosaurs or cleans the body by the relatives of crocodile’s prehistoric times. Fossils are currently on display in Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta.
The pterosaur has been in all shapes and sizes, and was found worldwide during its tenure, and lasted 220 million to 65 million years ago. But they often had broken bones that were often destroyed before they were preserved in the fossil record. Paleontologists said they were mainly looking for the neck and finger bones of this species and said that David Hone, a paleist scholar of Queen Mary, London, was not involved in this study.
But scientists said, “We have a much better idea than eating brain species than we’re eating,” Caleb Brown, a paleontologist and curator of Royal Tyrrell Museum, who was actually one of the authors of new research. Paleontologists have found only about four vertebrate fossils so far, suggesting that predators sometimes have eaten in this winged reptile. Including the neck bones with teeth like crocodiles found in Romania and long bones partially digested in the belly of the Belocy Raptor that is not found in Mongolia.
The latest fossil spine, the two -inch neck spine, was discovered by the students during 2023 at Dinosaur Park in Badland in Alberta in 2023. Dr. Brown said that the area was so rich in relics, saying, “I can’t walk literally without stepping on the dinosaur bones.”
He and his team of the museum identified fossils as a young Cryodrakon Boreas. The full -fledged member of this species has more than 30 feet of wings. These young people still reached about 6 feet of wings when they died and died.
While inspecting the fossils, Dr. Brown noticed that it looked like a small bite. The team scaned a hole under the microscope and sent bones for CT scan. What they found coincided with the teeth made of teeth when the bones were still fresh.
It was the following sculptures of the puzzle to identify the bitter. There were many potential candidates. The Cretaceous Alberta was farther north than today, but it was a lush tropical area that was in contact with the inland sea. Wetlands near the open water had many large dinosaurs, crocodiles and mammals.
But dinosaurs seemed to be the cause. The dinosaur species that lived in the area at that time had a day or D -shaped teeth that did not match the circular shape of the hole. The crocodile, on the other hand, creates a circular hole. This hole is also the right size for a huge pterosaur and coexistented crocodiles. In the case of Dr. Brown, he made him the “most candidate” of the crocodile predators or scabin.
Perhaps even with the suspect, no one knows what the last moment of the young Iksang is. As Dr. Brown guessed it became a “free lunch” for the hungry crocodile that died and died? Or was it a victim of ambush?
Both explanations are possible. Like the crocodiles and crocodiles today, the ancestors of the Cretaceous era said, “Perhaps you have caught everything you can handle your mouth,” HONE said. “CROCS is doing.”
