A FOSSIL which had been wrongly labelled in a museum drawer has been identified as an entirely new species of flying prehistoric creature. Roy found it and straight away he said, ‘Wow, I know what this is – it’s the jaw of a pterosaur’. “He’s now published a paper and this specimen gets a mention as it’s a completely new species. He realised it was not a shark fin because of tiny holes where nerves come to the surface, used for sensitive feeding by the pterosaurs, which shark fin spines do not have. “I love looking after them and making them available to other people, whether it’s a little child or a university professor.”

Source: The North Africa Journal November 21, 2020 05:03 UTC