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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 06, 2024, 02:03:38 PM

Title: Pterosaur: Unique flying reptile soared above Isle of Skye
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 06, 2024, 02:03:38 PM

And presumably other places as well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68207021

Title: Re: Pterosaur: Unique flying reptile soared above Isle of Skye
Post by: Steve H on February 14, 2024, 12:26:57 PM

Bearing in mind plate tectonics, does that mean that it flew over the bit of land that now constitutes Skye, wherever it was then, or that it flew over the part of the globe where Skye is now, but probably wasn't then?

Title: Re: Pterosaur: Unique flying reptile soared above Isle of Skye
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 14, 2024, 01:45:33 PM

Quote from: SteveH on February 14, 2024, 12:26:57 PM

Bearing in mind plate tectonics, does that mean that it flew over the bit of land that now constitutes Skye, wherever it was then, or that it flew over the part of the globe where Skye is now, but probably wasn't then?

From the article 'In the Middle Jurassic period, Scotland was part of an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a sub-tropical climate with beaches and lagoons where the pterosaurs probably liked to live, he explains.'