Palaeontology: Walking with pterosaurs.

Pterosaurs, iconic flying reptiles of the Mesozoic, walked on all fours. A new study has analysed their hand and foot anatomy and how it enabled the walking lifestyle that may have been the foundation of their attaining gigantic sizes.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2024-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.066PMID 39689691
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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