Intisari-Online.com – At the time dinosaur, azhdarchid pterosaurus towering reptile that can grow as big as an airplane.
They support neck long and large head with a spine neck they are unique.
This unique structure, which looked like spokes on a bicycle wheel, allowed the largest pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which had a wingspan of more than 10 meters, to fly.
Yes, they can fly even if they have neck which is longer than neck giraffe.
“One of our most important findings is the arrangement of the crossbars within the vertebral centrum,” said research colleague Dave Martill, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.
“This is unlike anything seen previously in the vertebrae of any animal.”
The team found that in pterosaurs in the Azhdarchidae family, these rod-like structures connected the inner walls of the mostly hollow neck bones.
This slender trunk has an average diameter of 1.16 millimeters.
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