Pterosaur

Paleontologists have discovered hundreds of well-preserved pterosaur eggs.

The Quetzalcoatlus was the largest pterosaur.

The fossilized footprints had originally been thought to belong to a pterosaur — a flying dinosaur — that had been walking on two legs.

Is the pterosaur maybe a type of dinosaur?

The pterosaur, named Thapunngaka shawi, is the largest of its kind ever found in Australia, and dates back 100 million years.

Researchers have said the pterosaur, a type of flying reptile, was the “closest thing we have to a real-life dragon.”

With a spearlike mouth and a wingspan estimated at 7 meters, they have said the pterosaur would have “soared like a dragon” above the vast inland sea that once covered much of outback Queensland.

Paleontologists said the pterosaur was perfectly adapted to flight, with relatively hollow, air-filled bones.

Pterosaur remains are rare and often poorly preserved.

Tim Richards, a researcher at the university’s Dinosaur Lab, says the pterosaur would have been a savage prehistoric predator.