Model behaviour
24 July 2007Scientists at the University of Reading, collaborating with colleagues at the Universities of Portsmouth and Sheffield, have provided a new insight into the lifestyle of a prehistoric flying reptile. Using new physical and mathematical modelling they have shown that suggestions that extinct pterosaurs gathered their food by 'skimming' the surface of the ocean with their beaks are inaccurate.
Scientists at the University of Reading, collaborating with colleagues at the Universities of Portsmouth and Sheffield, have provided a new insight into the lifestyle of a prehistoric flying reptile. Using new physical and mathematical modelling they have shown that suggestions that extinct pterosaurs gathered their food by 'skimming' the surface of the ocean with their beaks are inaccurate.