A 233-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How #Pterosaurs Learned to Fly.
Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.
#Fossils of Ixalerpeton offered the clearest window yet into the earliest stages of pterosaur brain evolution. Although this small reptile never flew, its brain shows that some of the sensory groundwork for flight was already forming before wings ever appeared.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/a-233-million-year-old-fossil-reveals-how-pterosaurs-learned-to-fly-48322 #globalmuseum
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
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A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Each chapter helps to reveal a unique narrative of the grand cycle of life, based on extraordinary evidence of behaviours written in the rocks.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#SciArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology#Fossils#JurassicWorld#JurassicWorldRebirth
A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Each chapter helps to reveal a unique narrative of the grand cycle of life, based on extraordinary evidence of behaviours written in the rocks.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#SciArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Birds#Pterosaurs#Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology#Fossils#JurassicWorld#JurassicWorldRebirth