{"id":2956,"date":"2025-01-30T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/eeny-meeny-miny-mo-catch-a-pterosaur-by-its-neck\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:58:24","slug":"eeny-meeny-miny-mo-catch-a-pterosaur-by-its-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/eeny-meeny-miny-mo-catch-a-pterosaur-by-its-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Eeny Meeny Miny Mo, Catch a Pterosaur by Its Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Around 76 million years ago, something took a bite out of a young pterosaur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pterosaurs were large, flying reptiles that roamed our planet\u2019s skies when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Some species <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/14\/science\/pterosaurs-necks-azhdarchids.html\" title=\"\">were giants<\/a>. But even their large size didn\u2019t keep them off the menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Paleontologists have discovered a tooth mark in a neck vertebra of a pterosaur that died in what is now Alberta. In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-paleontology\/article\/juvenile-pterosaur-vertebra-with-putative-crocodilian-bite-from-the-campanian-of-alberta-canada\/940BA5F686A0C1CBE936B4CB8586AB62\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published last week<\/a> in The Journal of Paleontology, they suggest that the tooth mark was made by a prehistoric relative of the crocodile that either snatched the young pterosaur from the shore or scavenged its dead body. The fossil is now on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pterosaurs came in all shapes and sizes and were found worldwide during their tenure on the planet, which lasted from 220 million to 65 million years ago. But they had fragile bones that were often destroyed before being preserved in the fossil record. Paleontologists mostly find neck and finger bones for this species, and that makes them \u201cquite mysterious,\u201d said David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London who was not involved in the research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But scientists actually \u201chave a much better idea of what was eating pterosaurs than what they were eating,\u201d said Caleb Brown, a paleontologist and curator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum who was among the authors of the new study. Paleontologists have so far discovered only around four pterosaur fossils that suggest that predators occasionally dined on these winged reptiles \u2014 including a neck bone with crocodile-like teeth marks found in Romania and a partly digested long bone in the belly of a velociraptor uncovered in Mongolia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This latest fossil \u2014 a two-inch neck vertebra \u2014 was found by students during a dig in 2023 in the Dinosaur Park Formation in the badlands of Alberta. The area is so rich in remains that \u201cyou literally can\u2019t walk without stepping on dinosaur bones,\u201d Dr. Brown said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He and his team at the museum identified the fossil as belonging to a young Cryodrakon boreas. Full-grown members of this species had wingspans of more than 30 feet. This youngling was still growing and had reached a wingspan of only around six feet when it died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While examining the fossil, Dr. Brown noticed what looked like a small bite mark. The team examined the puncture hole under a microscope and sent the bone for a CT scan. What they found was consistent with a puncture made by a tooth when the bone was still fresh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Identifying the biter was the next piece of the puzzle. There were many potential candidates. Even though Cretaceous Alberta was farther north than it is today, it was a lush, tropical area that bordered an inland sea. Wetlands near the open water were home to many large dinosaurs, crocodilians and mammalians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But dinosaurs seemed like unlikely culprits. Dinosaur species who lived in the area at the time had blade- or D-shaped teeth that didn\u2019t match the circular shape of the hole. Crocodilians, on the other hand, do make circular-shaped punctures. The hole is also the right size for two species of crocs that coexisted with giant pterosaurs. For Dr. Brown, that made a crocodilian predator or scavenger the \u201cmost likely candidate\u201d for the bite mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even with a likely suspect, no one knows what the young pterosaur\u2019s last moments were like. Did it die and become a \u201cfree lunch\u201d for a hungry crocodilian that happened upon its body, as Dr. Brown speculated? Or was it the victim of an ambush?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both explanations are possible. Like alligators and crocodiles today, their forebears in the Cretaceous period \u201cprobably grabbed whatever the hell they\u2019re able to get their mouth around,\u201d Dr. Hone said. \u201cIt\u2019s what crocs do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/science\/pterosaur-fossil-bite-croc.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 76 million years ago, something took a bite out of a young pterosaur. 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