Bones found on a seaside cliff in south-east Victoria decades ago once belonged to an ancient flying reptile, and are the oldest of their kind ever found in Australia. 9News
concluded the bones date back 107 million years ago, a time when pterosaurs – the earliest vertebrates known to evolve powered flight – dominated the skies.
Lead researcher and PhD student Adele Pentland, from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, confirmed the findings after analysing the bones. "But as you can imagine hollow bones can get broken very easily, before and after they get fossilised. They're so fragile.READ MORE:The dig was labor-intensive with the aim to learn about dinosaurs and other animals that lived in polar south-eastern Australia during the Early Cretaceous.
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