The Technodrome Forums - Earliest flying reptile species discovered

This should confuse Superman fans a bit.

Earliest known Pteradactyloid (flying reptile) found called... KRYPTOdrakon. Apparantly the word Krypto is Greek for Hidden. The team that named it are fans of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"... *lol*

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An international research team has discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid, a group of flying reptiles that would go on to become the largest known flying creatures to have ever existed, and established they flew above the earth some 163 million years ago, longer than previously known.

Working from a fossil discovered in northwest China, the project–led by USF paleontologist Brian Andres, James Clark of the George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences–named the new pterosaur species Kryptodrakon progenitor.

http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=6251&z=123