Monkeydactyl: the new pterosaur with the oldest opposable thumbs

29 May 2021, Author: Amalyah Hart

It flew through the skies on metre-wide wings, but this newly discovered, 160-million-year-old pterosaur shared an unexpected evolutionary quirk with primates: opposable thumbs.

Full article: https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/monkeydactyl-the-new-dinosaur-with-the-oldest-opposable-thumbs/

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