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Depiction of Eudimorphon at Museum Image: 0014602904, License: Rights managed, The Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali has created a diorama, after an illustration by John Sibbick, from a book by Dr. Peter Wellenhofer. Eudimorphon ranzii was found in the Cene limestone outcrop in northern Italy, in 1973. The oldest known pterosaur, Eudimorphodon is from the Middle to Upper Norian, in the Late Triassic. It had a wingspan of 1 meter, a thick tail, and rather short legs. The dentition design of the pterosaur's jaws make it likely that Eudimorphodon ate small fish and insects. Wing fingers and most of the hind legs are missing in the 220 million-year-old fossil. Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to take to the skies, were thought to be cold-blooded, awkward gliders. Recent fossil evidence, however, shows possible hair-like structures much like the feathers of modern birds. Pterosaurs may have had a warm-blooded metabolism (also called endothermi, Property Release: No or not aplicable, Model Release: No or not aplicable, Place: Bergamo, Italy, Credit line: Profimedia.cz, Corbis

Dioramata také mohou ukazovat prehistorické živočichy, kteří už dávno vyhynuly. Tento výjev s ptakoještěry můžete shlédnout v muzeu ve městě Bergamo v Itálii. | Foto: Profimédia