David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D Page #2

Synopsis: Evolutionary story of flight from the very first insects to the incredible array of creatures which rule the skies today.
 
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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,

with forward pointing teeth,

and we think that this indicates

that it lived by skimming

across the surface of the lagoon,

and snatching up fish

which impaled on those teeth.

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.

This bristely fringe enabled

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.

Around 70 million years ago,

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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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series that form the Life collection, which form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. He is the younger brother of the director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough, and older brother of the motor executive John Attenborough. more…

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