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Butterfly wing-headed flying reptile fossils found in Brazil The remains of a flock of ancient flying reptiles with butterfly wing-shaped crests atop their heads has been found in Brazil, according to paleontologists with the Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caiuajara dobruskii lived in the Cretaceous period about 80 million years ago and is a pterosaur. The fossils were found in southern Brazil in the 1970s and forgotten until recently, according to a study that details the findings in PLoS ONE. livescience/47337-cretaceous-flying-reptile-discovered.html
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:15:11 +0000

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