A team of Australian researchers has discovered the country's largest flying reptile. The fearsome, long-necked pterosaur had a wingspan measuring seven meters in length and what the team calls a "spear mouth." The authors noted that the Toolebuc formation shows the period when shallow seas covered around 60% of Australia. In June of 2011, local fossicker Len Shaw uncovered the rostral portion of the new anhanguerian pterosaur's crested mandible at a site called "water pond." "The species name, shawi, honors the fossil’s discoverer Len Shaw, so the name means ‘Shaw’s spear mouth,'" he said.

Source: Fox News August 10, 2021 20:35 UTC