Pterosaurs weren’t all super-sized in the Late Cretaceous

Some of the flying reptiles were smaller than a bald eagle

illustration of pterosaurs

TINY FLIER  Some 77 million years ago, little pterosaurs (shown in illustration) shared the sky with gigantic ones, based on new fossils of a small-bodied flying reptile found in British Columbia.

Mark Witton

Pterosaurs didn’t have to be gargantuan to survive in the Late Cretaceous.