Monday, June 25, 2007

Winged Dragons

A quarry on the Virginia-North Carolina border has yielded fossils of an unusual gliding reptile that lived in the region about 220 million years ago.

- Science News (story available to subscribers only)

I finally broke down and renewed my subscription to Science News after a hiatus of several years.

I got tired of missing out on fascinating articles like this one.

The source rock was so hard that the bones could not be removed without damaging them.

This cute little dragon had the wingspan of a modern-day cardinal.

Creation or evolution?

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