Avocado farmer’s discovery in Australian outback is new species of pterosaur, scientists say - Kevin Peterson, who also has a ...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago.. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of ...

However, a new paper published June 12 in Scientific Reports describes a fossilized skeleton found in the Australian state of Queensland that belongs to a previously unknown species of pterosaur ...

A groundbreaking discovery has just placed Japan on the map of ancient flying creatures. For the first time in history, ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur in Australia. The fossilized remains of the flying reptile, which lived among the dinosaurs, were discovered in western Queensland.

A new species of pterosaur was discovered from a period and location that came as a "complete surprise" to the team of paleontologists. The remains of the pterosaur were found on the Isle of Skye ...

Southern Methodist University. (2022, November 9). New pterosaur species found in sub-Saharan Africa. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 11 ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021.

Sometimes new discoveries take a long, long time to surface. Paleontologists first saw the bones of the new pterosaur Ceoptera evansae in 2006, during a field trip to the southwest coast of the ...

In the 2010s, paleontologists found several intermediate species called darwinopterans. The specimens revealed that the head and neck changed first before the rest of the body.

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago.. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of ...