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What is this new species Cryodrakon Boreas?

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Paleontologists identified a new species, named it Cryodrakon boreas, and declared that it could be one of the largest flying animals.

With a wingspan of over 10 meters, it is believed to have flown over the heads of dinosaurs. The reptile lived over 77 million years ago in what is western Canada today.

Its remains were, in fact, discovered 30 years ago from the Dinosaur Park Formation located in Alberta. Then, paleontologists had assumed that it belonged to an already known species of pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus.

A new study by researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, has concluded that the remains belong to a new species, which is also the first pterosaur to be discovered in Canada.

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