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. the team s now sending it on anotherjourney, to the national museum of scotland, where it will eventually be put on display. it s a humble last trip on a pallet for a creature that s been buried since
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 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 o
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 in jurassic 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. the team s now sending it on anotherjourney, to the national museum of scotland, where it will eventually be put on display. it s a humble last trip on a pallet for a creature that s been buried since the age of the dinosaurs.