The bones of the powerful pterosaur, an ancient flying reptile closely related to dinosaurs, are now on display at the Altmuehltal Dinosaur Museum in Germany as part of its Emperors of the Skies exhibit. An artist's impression shows the Dracula pterosaur living in a subtropical island during the Cretaceous period in what is now Romania. Paleontologists Gerhard Haszprunar, left, Mike Reich, centre left, and Raimund Albersdorfer, centre right, stand with museum founder Michael Volker, right, in front of the Dracula pterosaur on display at Altmuehltal Dinosaur Museum. "Facing this gigantic neck vertebra, we couldn't identify it, you know," said Raimund Albersdorfer, a paleontologist at the Altmuehltal Dinosaur Museum. Eventually, they realized it must be a pterosaur — "a gigantic, unique pterosaur — and we just freaked out."

Source: CBC News March 23, 2018 14:25 UTC