Pterosaurs Could Control Their Color Using Melanin Pigments

Paleontologists have examined the fossilized headcrest of Tupandactylus imperator, a species of tapejarid pterosaur that lived in north-eastern Brazil some 115 million years in the past (Early Cretaceous epoch). Feathers are exceptional integumentary improvements which can be intimately linked to the evolutionary success of birds and happen in numerous non-avian dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic onwards. The early […]