Tag Archives: Pterosaurs

Hellfrog Maximum

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Jaime A. Headden

Beelzebufo ampinga (Evans, Jones & Krause, 2008) may not be the largest extinct frog, but it was particularly large. Amongst the frogs, it’s amongst the hyperossified members of Ceratophryidae (Hyloidea, Anura) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. There’s not much … Continue reading →

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A Look Back at the Bite Stuff, 2014 Edition

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Another year over, and a new one’s about to begin. It’s the [western] new year, and it’s been a little more bumpy than normal. Big things happened! I blogged less, but the blogging was more radical.

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Shell Crushing Pterosaurs and Bad Posture

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Small post here. This one is going to seem incomplete, the title a tease. It’s a premise for more things. But you’ll see where I’m going with this. This concerns the issues of how we look at pterosaurs when they’re … Continue reading →

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What Else Happened? II – More Tails of Pterosaurs

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Continuing a story of the low-key, not-Spinosaurus paleontological papers recently published, discussing our bizarre Mesozoic macrofauna, this installment covers a few pterosaur tidbits. The first of these is an amazing assemblage of scattered bones of numerous different-sized individuals that are … Continue reading →

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A Short Piece on Piscivores – Not All The Same

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

So you think you know a piscivore if you saw one? Not so fast. Take a look: Piscivores come in a large array of sizes and morphologies. Not all have teeth. Some are slender-snouted, others broad. What mostly defines a … Continue reading →

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An Edentulous Dsungaripterid? 10 Facts About Banguela

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

So I’ve gone on and on about all this boring stuff about writing papers and my personal experience and analysis and what not. But you probably want to know about Banguela oberlii, the pterosaur. Let’s talk about what the paper … Continue reading →

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The Journey of Banguela

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

The life of a pterosaur cannot be easy. Most occur in places where there is always a larger predator; even the giants Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopterus may have co-occurred with other predators that would have seen them as food. From hatching … Continue reading →

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The Broken Jaw of Banguela

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

In my last post, I introduced Banguela oberlii, a new, toothless dsungaripterid pterosaur.

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Meet Banguela

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

A foggy morning. Water laps gently on a rocky shore, a rhythmic sound accompanying the gentle hum of insects. Mist hugs the forest margin, creeping along the ground; it shrinks back as the heat of the rising sun burns away … Continue reading →

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Pterosaur, Inter-Modulated

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

When Helmut Tischlinger and Eberhard “Dino” Frey team up for a paper, you know it’s gonna be good. Almost certainly, there will be UV involved. The pterosaur fossils of the Solnhofen are especially UV reflective, which brings out obscure or … Continue reading →

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