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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pterosaur Find


Assuming the fossil finds (supposedly 20 specimens) are genuine and authentic, a seeming 160 million-year-old pterodactyl missing link has been discovered in China (newly-christened Darwinopterus modularis), possibly exemplifying "modular" evolution:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/14/darwinopterus.dinosaur.fossil/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

and

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/10/darwinopterus_transitional.php

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