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![“This fossil is so well preserved that you can count all of its fingers. Look at the three small fingers on each hand: beside them is a very long fourth “ring” finger that is part of the pterosaur’s wing.”
Pterosaur [Pterodactylus antiquus], Late Jurassic (164-145 MILLION YEARS AGO), Eichstatt, Germany. fieldmuseum
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