David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D Page #2
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This is its head, here's its backbone,
tail, hind legs,
and here, stretching
from these long extended
finger-bones, are its wings.
And this fossil is
particularly remarkable,
because it shows
an impression of the membrane
in extraordinary detail.
You can see every little tiny fold.
You can judge how an animal lived,
by its skull.
And this one, had these long jaws,
and we think that this indicates
that it lived by skimming
across the surface of the lagoon,
and snatching up fish
This, very different one,
it's just the head.
As you can see it has very long jaws,
and at the tip of the lower one is
this little tuft of very fine filaments.
And we know from other specimens
that those filaments
originally stretched
right along the length of the jaw.
the creature to filter-feed,
taking in a beak full of water,
expelling it through the bristles
with the beak half closed,
and then swallowing
what the bristles retained.
And here is a skull
of a very much bigger species from Brazil.
And it had neither teeth
nor bristles in its jaws,
but microscopic examination
of the surface of the bone here,
reveals very tiny little blood vessels
and that suggests that these jaws
were once covered with a horny beak.
So that maybe this animal used
it's beak like a pair of forceps
to pick up small little reptiles,
or maybe catch dragonflies in the air.
And this particular skull
reveals something else
about the lifestyle of this specimen,
because at the back of the skull
it has this great flange.
And Pterosaur skeletons
from other species
have been found, some with such flanges
but others without.
So it's thought that maybe
this was the difference
between the sexes.
Maybe was the male
that had these big flanges
at the back which it displayed them,
and maybe it was covered with skin,
we can only guess.
Many different Pterosaur species
evolved these headcrests,
and seems very likely,
that they were coloured.
This spectacular example,
is known as Tapejara.
And it made its home beside inland lakes.
But Pterosaurs diversified
in other ways too.
Some evolved much larger bodies.
This species had a wingspan
of over 20 feet, 7 metres.
But not all Pterosaurs
lived in the forests or near water.
An open, arid landscape like this one,
was the likely home
of one of the most extraordinary.
a Pterosaur appeared
that was of truly colossal proportions.
That was one of the largest creatures
that has ever flown,
it was in the size of a small aeroplane,
and it was called, Quetzalcoatlus.
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