2 Mar 2022

Largest Jurassic flier found on the Isle of Skye

From Nights, 9:10 pm on 2 March 2022

Professor Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh and the National Museums Scotland joins us to talk about the recent discovery on the Isle of Skye of a fossil of  the largest Jurassic pterosaur yet known.

An artist’s impression of a new pterosaur from Scotland (Dearc sgiathanach) flying away from a predatory dinosaur

An artist’s impression of a new pterosaur from Scotland (Dearc sgiathanach) flying away from a predatory dinosaur Photo: Natalia Jagielska