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Flying reptiles called pterosaurs ruled the skies 90 million years ago. They had hollow bones allowing the sometimes huge animals to fly. Now, paleontologists have found the first precursors of hollow bones, in a flightless ancestor of pterosaurs, Venetoraptor, that was likely a jumper and climber.


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