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Prehistoric winged lizard unearthed in Chile

By AFP
September 14, 2021

Santiago: Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era "winged lizard" known as a pterosaur. Fossils of the reptile, which lived some 160 million years ago in what is today the Atacama desert, were unearthed in 2009.