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Darwinopterus

Erinnya litegeeza: “Darwin's wing”1

Yalyanga: EbiwukaEbyewalula ebibuukaAmakkati ga Jurasiki okutuuka ku Enkomerero ya JurasikiMu butuufu si dayinoso

Imagine a flying reptile that looks like it got its head from one group and its tail from another. That is Darwinopterus. It lived in the middle Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago, in what is now China.1 2

Ekyewuunyisa: pterosawulu zaabuukanga waggulu wa dayinoso, naye zaali ab'oluganda lwazo, so si dayinoso zennyini.

Yabeerawo

emyaka obukadde 168 okutuuka ku 152 emabega5

Amakkati ga Jurasiki okutuuka ku Enkomerero ya Jurasiki

Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu

Liaoning Province, China5 1

Obuwanvu

0.34 okutuuka ku 0.46 m (1.1 okutuuka ku 1.5 ft)2

Obugazi bw'ebiwaawaatiro

0.75 m (2.5 ft)3

Sipiidi esinga

nga 32 km/h (20 mph)

Okubuuka, kuteebereza

Yabeerawo ddi?

Tiriyasi

Jurasiki

Kuretasi

Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

Yali munene atya?

Yali muwanvu kwenkana wa?

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Darwinopterus yali munene atya bw'ogeraageranya ku GGWE?

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Omuntu atambula nga 5 km/h (3 mph)

Omwana ku kagaali nga 12 km/h (7 mph)

Darwinopterus nga 32 km/h (20 mph)

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Cheetah nga 100 km/h (62 mph)

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Ebyewuunyisa

Darwinopterus was a 'transitional fossil' because it had a head and neck like later short-tailed pterosaurs, but a long tail like earlier ones.1 2

More than 30 fossils of Darwinopterus have been found, all from the same rock layer in China.1

The name Darwinopterus honors Charles Darwin, the famous scientist who came up with the idea of evolution by natural selection.1 2

Darwinopterus had a very long tail, made of more than 20 vertebrae, with thin bony rods wrapping around it.2

Its skull was huge, almost twice as long as the bones of its back. That's even bigger than many later pterosaurs.2

Darwinopterus had about 15 pairs of slender, spike-like teeth in its mouth, good for gripping prey.2

The first Darwinopterus species, D. modularis, was named in 2010. Later, three more species were added in 2011, 2025, and 2010.1 5

Ekifaananyi kya Darwinopterus ekyakolebwa AI, nga kiraga engeri gye yayinza okuba ng'afaanana, ekyakolebwa kompyuta okusinziira ku ebyo bannassaayansi bye bamanyi. Kuteebereza: ekisolo ekyennyini kiyinza okuba nga kyali kifaanana bulala, era tewali amanyi langi zaakyo ez'amazima.

wabuuza

Ebibuuzo ebisinga okubuuzibwa ku Darwinopterus

?Was Darwinopterus a dinosaur?

No, Darwinopterus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived while dinosaurs walked on land. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.4 1

?How big was Darwinopterus?

It was a relatively small pterosaur. Its skull was about 0.14 to 0.19 metres long, and its forelimbs were about 0.34 to 0.46 metres long.2

?What did Darwinopterus eat?

Its slender, spike-like teeth were well suited for gripping prey, so it probably caught small animals like insects or fish. Scientists infer this from the tooth shape.2 1

?Why is Darwinopterus called a transitional fossil?

Because it had a head and neck like later short-tailed pterosaurs, but a long tail like earlier ones. This mix shows how one group evolved into the other.1 4

Eri abakugu mu dayinoso

Erinnya lya ssaayansi: Darwinopterus
Yatuumibwa: Lü et al. 20105
Ekibinja: Ebyewalula ebibuuka
Ekika / ekibinja: Monofenestrata5
Engabanya: Pterosauria5
Emyaka gy'enjazi: emyaka obukadde 168 okutuuka ku 152 (Bathonian / Kimmeridgian)5
Ensengeka z'enjazi: Tiaojishan5
Ensi: Cayina5
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa: 4 mu The Paleobiology Database5
Okuzuulibwa: The first Darwinopterus fossil was found at Linglongta, Liaoning Province, China, in rocks of the Tiaojishan Formation. Scientists Lü Junchang, David Unwin, and others named it in 2010. It was described in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.1 2
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo: Scientists are still debating whether Darwinopterus was a fast aerial hunter or mainly an insectivore that hopped on the ground.1

Ebituufu gye biva

Darwinopterus (en.wikipedia.org)
Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Brazil - A new species of Darwinopterus (Wukongopteridae, Pterosauria) from western Liaoning provides some new information on the ontogeny of this clade A new species of <i>Darwinopterus</i> (Wukongopteridae, Pterosauria) from western Liaoning provides some new information on the ontogeny of this clade (scielo.br)
Darwinopterus, a Transitional Pterosaur (smithsonianmag.com)
Darwinopterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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