University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, pterosaurs, with broken wings. Smashed from the sky 150 million years ago by tropical storms, these hatchlings were rapidly buried at the bottom of a lagoon in fine muds whipped up by the same storm that killed them. This pair of ‘tragedies’ solves an age-old mystery – why are small, young pterosaurs so beautifully preserved in the Solnhofen Limestones, while larger older individuals are known only from fragments. 

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