Dinosaurs

With a name like T. Rex, you are trying to protect even the most violent fiercest paleo-bullies. It turns out old flying reptiles could taste the baby Tyrannosaurus Rex and other dinosaurs landlubbing runts in the world.

A new study shows a group of reptiles, the flying lived during the era of dinosaurs some 230 million to 65 million years took no prey in flight, but the petioles on the mainland.
So far, the paleontologist photographed what the so-called "lizard wing" or as pterosaurs lean diet. In this vision, the creatures, which over the lakes and oceans Fang of fish, the surface of the water, a little like the seagulls, do today.
The new discoveries, detailed online this week in the journal PLoS ONE, the animals are not totally terrain.
"In our case, the first flight is a method of the locomotive," said the co-Mark Witton Researchers at the University of Portsmouth in England. "They are for use to move from point A to point B. We believe that the majority in their life when they are feeding and reproduction, that's all happening on the ground and not in the air."
To this diet habits, Witton and Portsmouth colleague Darren Naish analysis of the fossils to a group of pterosaurs Tigre azhdarchids paper, are much larger than the other pterosaurs. For example, one of the largest azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus, weighs about 550 pounds (250 kg) with a range of more than 30 feet (10 meters) and a height similar to a giraffe.