the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing. x ray scans of the skull have revealed even more detail. i m holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it s slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, but it s more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. we walked injurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with this same research team back in 2015. and you can see the toes. fossilised depressions left by giant sauropods, the biggest animals ever to walk the earth. and this fossil, the researchers say, is the largest pterosaur from that same period. this is the average size of a jurassic pterosaur skull. and this is dearc, the newly discovered fossil from the isle of skye.
years, the teeth and bones of a jurassic reptile. after racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. here they ve revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that they ve named dearc sgiathanach gaelic for winged reptile . i think it s a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we removed the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing. x ray scans of the skull have revealed even more detail. i m holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it s slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, but it s more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. we walked injurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with this same r
after racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. here they ve revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that they ve named dearc sgiathanach gaelic for winged reptile . i think it s a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we removed the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the neck and it leads to a body. something like this preserved in 3d isjust a one in a billion thing. x ray scans of the skull have revealed even more detail. i m holding a model of dearc sgiathanach. it s slightly smaller than the one we have in the fossil room, but it s more or less how the creature might have looked in real life. it has these enormous wing membranes. it also has this big tail, used as a flying rudder. we walked injurassic footprints when we visited the isle of skye with this same research team back in 2015. and you can see the toe
a fossil unearthed on the isle of skye is the largest pterosaur ever discovered from thejurassic period. the ancient flying reptile had a wing span of 2.5 metres or eight feet and would have flown over the heads of dinosaurs 170 million years ago. here is our science correspondent victoria gill. these look a little bit like there might be teeth. and it s pretty symmetrical. hidden in the rock for 170 million years, the teeth and bones of a jurassic reptile. after racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. but here they ve revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that they ve named dearc sgiathanach, gaelic for winged reptile. i think it s a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we remove the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, doing it up with the neck and you can see