Mysterious Triassic fossil reveals the origin of flying reptiles | Natural History Museum

A Scottish fossil is shedding light on what the ancestors of pterosaurs could have looked like.

Living over 200 million years ago, Scleromochlus helps to show how ancient reptiles took their first steps towards flight.
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00:00 Fossil discovered in northern Scotland
00:17 How the fossil formed
00:47 What the fossil reptile may have looked like
01:23 Scientists initial thoughts on the fossil
01:40 CT Scanning the fossil
02:08 What the scans tell us about the fossil
03:10 Continuing the search for the ancestor of flying reptiles

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Is that a Carel Brest van Kempen painting?