Article 5NS1H A Police Raid in Brazil Turned Up a Rare, 100-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile

A Police Raid in Brazil Turned Up a Rare, 100-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile

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Isaac Schultz
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Police in Brazil seized a fossil from smugglers that has turned out to be one of the best-ever preservations of a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived over 100 million years ago. They caught it just in time, as the fossil had been cut apart and was about to be shipped out of the country. Now, eight years later,...

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