BBC paints a sweet, fossilized portrait of pterosaur family life:
A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg.
The egg indicates this ancient flying reptile was a female, and that realisation has allowed researchers to sex these creatures for the first time.
Writing in Science magazine, the palaeontologists make some broad statements about differences in pterosaurs, including the observation that only males sported a head-crest.
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The new creature is from the Darwinopterus genus, or grouping, but has been dubbed simply as “Mrs T” (a contraction of “Mrs Pterodactyl”) by the research team.
The state of the egg’s shell suggests it was well developed and that Mrs T must have been very close to laying it when she died.
The writer didn’t make the obvious connection – that the male with the brilliant crest down the middle of his scalp? He’d be named Mr. T.