Largest Jurassic pterosaur on record unearthed in Scotland
The pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach flies through the Jurassic skies of what is now Scotland.It had a wingspan of at least 8 feet.During low tide on Scotland's Isle of Skye, a graduate student hunting for dinosaur bones looked down at the coastal rocks and made the discovery of a lifetime: the remains of the largest pterosaur on record from the Jurassic period.Since collecting the specimen in 2017 — an eventful excavation that involved cutting out the pterosaur chunks with diamond-tipped saws and …
