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Two Extraordinary Fossils of Immature Pterosaurs Killed by Catastrophic Storm Found in Germany


Paleontologists at the University of Leicester have examined the 150-million-year-old fossilized skeletons of two highly immature Pterodactylus antiquus individuals with broken wings from the Solnhofen Limestones of southern Germany.

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