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113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Fossil Reveals What Flying Reptiles Ate


A 113-million-year-old pterosaur fossil from northeastern Brazil has yielded rare evidence of soft tissues, organic molecules and chemical traces of a diet heavy in fish and cephalopods such as squid or nautilus relatives.

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