Hundreds Of Eggs From Ancient Flying Reptile Are Found In China

npr ^ | November 30, 20173:55 PM ET | Merrit Kennedy

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[V K Lee]

DRAGONS! and in China: first thing on my mind as well. Perhaps there would be dragons after all, but would these creatures actually imprison a princess?

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[mairdie]

Wonderful article. Thank you.

[TigersEye]

This particular species was believed to have a massive wingspan of up to 13 feet, and likely ate fish with their large teeth-filled jaws.

There must have been a lot of fish.

[Popman]

-—They can be seen flying every day around sunset in New Guinea.——

Pictures or video...?

[kiryandil]

I was wondering who was going to be “first in” with a Daenerys Targaryen reference...

[GOPBiker]

Truth in legend, perhaps.

The princess part is likely for the story.

The plot in Reign of Fire seemed more likely to me; a voracious predator that eats itself to virtual extinction until conditions are right again by accident.

Would we prevail? I hope we don't have to find out.

[V K Lee]

We were fortunate to be spared from the wrath of the witch by PDJT.

Perhaps, we might be so fortunate to ask that Saint George save us by slaying the dragon and, as a result, Christianity would once again become predominate.

Never saw “Reign of Fire” as it was released post Hollywood. Few of the movies coming out in the past decade have been on my ‘must-see list’. Admittedly, the movies of old are more entertaining. Show an Alfred Hitchcock film or one of the Thin Man movies; that would be sufficient. :)

[GOPBiker]

I agree with your assessment re:PDJT.

Saved us a war at home. I believe the divine is interceding now and more and more. The revelations of the bad behavior that has been kept under wraps (and I do not mean the salacious stuff) is truly amazing.

We must do our part too to keep up the effort so we are worth saving.

The movie now, just good entertainment.

It was released in 2002 before the great slip into social management by the movie industry (at least that I noticed).

Here is the trailer if you are interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7bjwEXp7Y

The acting is good and the effects are great. The story hangs and the end is (not revealed).

[eldoradude]

The discovery has kicked off debate about whether the creatures could fly as soon as they hatched. Some previous theories had posited that they could, but the paper suggests otherwise. The research team found that the animal's hind leg bones were more developed than the wings at the time of hatching, and none of the embryos were found with teeth.

"Thus, newborns were likely to move around but were not able to fly, leading to the hypothesis that Hamipterus might have been less precocious than advocated for flying reptiles in general ... and probably needed some parental care," the paper reads.

Maybe like giant wild turkeys with teeth...

[BenLurkin]

Cute!

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Pteros are still flying! Nothing ancient about them, but their range has diminished because the Earth is much colder than it was 1000 years ago when they were all over the place. They can be seen flying every day around sunset in New Guinea.--editor-surveyor

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[BenLurkin]

Pricey.

[Daffynition]

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Such a find may actually be a reality one day (baby dino in amber), as they have found many animals preserved in amber, including frogs and small reptiles. Not sure the age of the oldest reptiles so far found, but clearly none are from as far back as the dinosaur age, else it would have been a major news story, even if not a dino itself.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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