Palaeontology
Prehistoric ‘runway’ discovered
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T.K. RandallAugust 21, 2009 ·
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Image Credit: Mark Witton, Darren Naish
Scientists have uncovered a prehistoric "runway" in the limestone deposits of an ancient lagoon that would have been used by a flying pterosaur over 140 million years ago as it took off in to the prehistoric skies.
A prehistoric runway for flying pterosaurs has been discovered for the first time. Scientists uncovered the first known landing tracks of one of these extinct flying reptiles at a site dubbed "Pterosaur Beach," in the fine-grained limestone deposits of an ancient lagoon in southwestern France dating back 140 million years to the Late Jurassic.
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