Largest Jurassic pterosaur discovered

The largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic Period has been uncovered in Scotland. The new species of flying reptile, Dearc sgiathanach, lived about 170 million years ago and had a wingspan of 2.5 metres — roughly the size of an albatross. Pterosaurs evolved 230 million years ago as small reptiles and eventually grew to be massive creatures with 12-metre wingspans by the Cretaceous Period, 145 million years ago. The new fossil helps to fill a gap in this dinosaur’s history because pterosaur fossils from the Middle Jurassic are very rare.