New research suggests that a fossilised reptile - around the same size as the average cat - unearthed in Scotland lived during the age of dinosaurs and was closely related to an extinct group of flying reptiles known as pterosaurs.
An artist’s impression of the reptile Scleromochlus taylori as it existed millions of years ago
Sterling Nesbitt, an associate professor at Virgina Tech in the US and one of the authors on the study, said: ‘Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight and for nearly two centuries, we did not know their closest relatives. However, the fossil was poorly preserved in sandstone so scientists were unable to study its anatomical features in detail.
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