Newly classified pterosaur was one of history's largest flying animals

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Bones discovered decades ago are now known to belong to a previously unknown species with a wingspan of up to 10 metres.

Scientists have reclassified the remains of an ancient type of flying reptile which they describe as among the largest of its kind.

The pterosaur has a wingspan of up to 10 metres and lived during the Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago.They included a skeleton with part of the wings, legs, neck and a rib. The main skeleton is from a young animal with a wingspan of about 5 metres but one giant neck bone from another specimen suggests an adult animal would have a wingspan of around 10 metres.It had been assumed that they belonged to the quetzalcoatlus, a type of pterosaur which had already been discovered in the US.

A study by Queen Mary University of London, however, has found that the remains belong to a new species - the cryodrakon boreas.

 

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