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Darwinopterus

名字的意思： “Darwin's wing”1

吃：昆蟲飛行爬蟲類侏羅紀中期到侏羅紀晚期嚴格來說不是恐龍

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

趣味小知識：翼龍在恐龍頭上飛來飛去，但牠們是恐龍的親戚，不是恐龍喔。

生存年代

168 到 152 百萬年前5

侏羅紀中期到侏羅紀晚期

化石發現地

Liaoning Province, China5 1

長度

0.34 到 0.46 m (1.1 到 1.5 ft)2

翼展

0.75 m (2.5 ft)3

最高速度

時速約 32 公里（20 英里）

飛行, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 2.5 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 14 塊積木排成一排一樣長能在 12 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Darwinopterus 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Darwinopterus 時速約 32 公里 (20 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

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

Darwinopterus 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Darwinopterus 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

你們都在問

關於 Darwinopterus 最常被問的問題

?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

給恐龍專家

學名: Darwinopterus
命名者: Lü et al. 20105
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Monofenestrata5
分類: Pterosauria5
岩石的年代: 168 到 152 百萬年 (Bathonian / Kimmeridgian)5
岩層: Tiaojishan5
國家: 中國5
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 4 筆5
發現: 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
仍有爭議: Scientists are still debating whether Darwinopterus was a fast aerial hunter or mainly an insectivore that hopped on the ground.1