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Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pterosaur from 76 million years ago—bearing a bite mark from an ancient relative of the crocodile.

The flying reptile, represented by a vertebra from the neck, was found in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, in July 2023.

The revelation of a 0.16-inch-wide tooth mark on the neck bone, the researchers said, provides a special insight into predator-prey dynamics of the Cretaceous Period.

Pterosaur bones are very delicate—so finding fossils where another animal has clearly taken a bite is exceptionally uncommon,” lead author Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, said in a statement.

“This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare.”

The bitten juvenile pterosaur’s vertebra (bottom) compared with an adult’s of the same species (top).University of Reading

According to the researchers, the punctured vertebra appears to have come from a young pterosaur of the family Azhdarchidae.

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