Pterosaur features defy comparison

Discovery News ^ | Aug. 5, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas

[decimon]

A well-preserved pterosaur with soft tissues reveals this flying reptile had hair, claws and wings that were unlike anything seen on today's living animals, suggests a new paper.

Analysis of the remains, which date to around 140 to 130 million years ago, indicate pterosaurs were warm-blooded insect eaters that may have lived in trees and possessed sophisticated flying skills.

"Pterosaurs are unique in their bone construction and our study also shows that some of the soft tissues of these creatures differ from anything known today," says study author Dr Alexander Kellner.

[decimon]

Carbon fiber ping.

[Sacajaweau]

Tastes like chicken!!

[Westbrook]

Looks like a very large bat.

Baying at the moon, it looks like a DemonRAT moon BAT.

[PIF]

The hairs, previously theorised to have been feathers or protofeathers, consisted of “comparatively thick filaments, differing in structure from mammalian hair.”

“Now, what were they?” asks Kellner. “This is the point: (They were) a completely different structure that is not known in any living organism today.”

...completely different structure that is not known in any living organism on Earth today.

The more we learn about creatures prior to 65 million years ago, the stranger they become.

[BubbaBasher]

Ditto on the bat. If it is warm-blooded, has hair, claws, wings, and eats insects it sounds like a bat to me. Why would they think it was a reptile?

[scoobysnak71]

[Freedom4Life]

Gaahhhh!! I almost fell out of my chair! What a hideous creature, and the bird-thing is ugly, too.

[Westbrook]

> Why would they think it was a reptile?

It’s a better fit for the paradigm of evolutionism.

[sr4402]

[Iscool]

Yeah right...What’d they do, find a lip and create the rest of the critter from there and invent a history??? When you put a T after a P it doesn’t spell a word...Pterosaur...

[SunkenCiv]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So what did it evolve too?

[SunkenCiv]

I think someone already posted the picture... ;’)

[wildbill]

Hair, claws and wings? No comparison to any current species?

Isn’t this the time for the Helen Thomas photo.

[Dustbunny]

Interesting, wonder if they might eventually discover they are related to modern day bats.

[Ole Okie]

When you put a T after a P it doesn’t spell a word

Oh, pshaw!

[SunkenCiv]

Pterosaur's Wing, "Hairs" Unlike Any Living Animals'
Charles Q. Choi for National Geographic News, August 4, 2009

[aruanan]

When you put a T after a P it doesn’t spell a word...Pterosaur...

I guess you'd probably think the same thing of a N after a P. Here are some pt- words:

ptaquiloside
ptarmic
ptarmigan
ptenoglossate
Peranodon
ptere
pterichthyid
pteridology
pterin
pteris
pterna
pterocymba
pteroma
ptilinium
ptish
Ptolemy (heard of him?)
ptomaine (heard of this kind of poisoning?)

and about 50 others