Nurhachius
Nurhachius was a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. It had a long skull full of sharp, triangular teeth, and it probably swooped over lakes to catch fish. It was not a dinosaur, but a pterosaur, a close cousin of dinosaurs.1
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
Diphuka tsa yona di ne di namegile go le kae?
E ne e le bokete go le kae?
diphuka di le bophara jaaka dibaesekele di le 1.5 di latelana
e ka nna bokete jaaka katse ya mo gae🍌bokete jaaka dibanana di le 33⚽e ne e ka fofa go kgabaganya lebala lotlhe la kgwele ya dinao mo metsotswaneng e le 7.3Nurhachius e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
Nurhachius had a very long skull, about 33 centimetres long, and its skull had a huge opening that took up about 58% of the skull length.1
It had 54 teeth in total: 14 on each side of the upper jaw and 13 on each side of the lower jaw. These teeth were flat and triangular, similar to those of the European pterosaur Istiodactylus.1
Nurhachius was one of the first pterosaurs from its group, the istiodactylids, to be found in China. Before that, this group was only known from Europe.2
The fossil skeleton of Nurhachius shows it was a subadult, meaning it was not fully grown when it died. Its bones show that some parts were still growing.1
Nurhachius lived in an area where many birds also lived, like Confuciusornis. Scientists think birds were more common in inland areas, while pterosaurs like Nurhachius were more common near the coast.2
The name Nurhachius honors Nurhachi, the founder of the Qing Dynasty in China. The species name ignaciobritoi honors a Brazilian paleontologist named Ignacio M. Brito.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Nurhachius
?How big was Nurhachius?
Nurhachius had a wingspan of about 2.4 to 2.5 metres (7.9 to 8.2 feet) and weighed around 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds).3
?What did Nurhachius eat?
Nurhachius probably ate fish. It had sharp, triangular teeth and a long skull, which helped it swoop over lakes to catch fish.3
?Is Nurhachius a dinosaur?
No, Nurhachius is not a dinosaur. It is a pterosaur, which is a flying reptile and a close cousin of dinosaurs.3
Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think Nurhachius was a dinosaur because it lived with dinosaurs.
Boammaaruri: Nurhachius was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs are a separate group of reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs.4
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Nurhachius
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Wang et al. 20054
- Setlhopha
- Digagabi tse di fofang
- Lelapa / clade
- Ornithocheiroidea4
- Thulaganyo
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 121 go ya go 113 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Aptian)4
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Jiufotang4
- Dinaga
- Tšhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 3 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- Nurhachius was named in 2005 by a team of scientists including Wang Xiaolin, Alexander Kellner, Zhou Zhonghe, and Diogenes de Almeida Campos. The first fossil was found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning, China.41
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating how Nurhachius is related to other pterosaurs. Some think it is closely related to Istiodactylus, but others are not sure because the fossil is incomplete.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- LETTERS (ivpp.cas.cn)
- Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China | Nature (nature.com)
- Nurhachius (en.wikipedia.org)
- Nurhachius in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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