Its neck is longer than the neck of a giraffe, this ancient animal was able to fly to carry prey with its large head and wings that reached 10 meters – all sides

Intisari-Online.com – At the time dinosaur, azhdarchid pterosaurus towering reptile that can grow as big as an airplane.

They support neck long and large head with a spine neck they are unique.

This unique structure, which looked like spokes on a bicycle wheel, allowed the largest pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which had a wingspan of more than 10 meters, to fly.

Yes, they can fly even if they have neck which is longer than neck giraffe.

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“One of our most important findings is the arrangement of the crossbars within the vertebral centrum,” said research colleague Dave Martill, a professor of paleobiology at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.

“This is unlike anything seen previously in the vertebrae of any animal.”

The team found that in pterosaurs in the Azhdarchidae family, these rod-like structures connected the inner walls of the mostly hollow neck bones.

This slender trunk has an average diameter of 1.16 millimeters.

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They are “arranged helically along the vertebrae,” says Martill.

“Evolution has shaped these creatures into amazing and very efficient fliers.”

Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, but lived with them after appearing at the end of the Triassic period, about 225 million years ago.

They lived until they disappeared from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago.

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Until now, researchers had suspected that the pterosaur neck bones had only a simple tube-in-tube structure.

But this proposed structure will likely not provide sufficient support to the long neck for the pterosaur’s head, especially as it caught and carried heavy prey in the air while hunting.

“These animals have very long necks,” said study first author Cariad Williams.

In some pterosaur species, the fifth neck segment of the head was the same length as the rest of the body.

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“We wanted to know a little about how this unusually long neck functions, because it appears to have very little mobility between each vertebra,” Williams said.

To investigate, they performed X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans of a well-preserved Cretaceous-aged pterosaur specimen (Alanqa saharica) found in Morocco.

Calculations of the load on the cervical spine show that at least 50 of these finger-like supports increase the amount of weight the neck can carry, without bending, by up to 90%, the researchers said.

These fingers, along with the tube-inside structure, show how pterosaurs can catch and carry heavy prey without injuring their own long necks.

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