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| Mysterious prehistoric reptiles |
| Mysterious prehistoric reptiles fly into New York
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-April-2014
5:18:20 AM |
| An international exhibition in New York explores the fascinating world of prehistoric flying reptiles, the pterosaurs who ruled the skies when dinosaurs ruled the earth millions of years ago.
"Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs," opens on Saturday and runs until January 2015 at the American Museum of Natural History, co-curated with an expert from Brazil.
It is the largest exhibition ever mounted in the United States about these flying reptiles that have long captured popular imagination and which play a starring role in any dinosaur movie.
In a full interactive experience, visitors can even "pilot" two species of flying pterosaurs over prehistoric landscapes via a sensor program that reproduces the human body's movements on a screen.
"Despite persistently captivating our popular imagination, pterosaurs are among the least well understood large animals from the age of dinosaurs," said museum president Ellen Futter.
They were the first vertebrates to fly, diversifying into more than 150 species ranging in size from a sparrow to a two-seater plane before becoming extinct 66 million years ago.
From the small Nemicolopterus crypticus of just 10 inches (25 centimeters), to the gigantic Quetzalcoatlus northropi of 10 yards (meters), the exhibition showcases many of the known pterosaurs through rare fossils and stunningly realistic models.
"It's just a fantastic exhibition, taking those bones and putting them into life," says co-curator Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist from Brazil's Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro
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