Diversity of pterosaur diets

[Halichoeres]

A new study reviews the various hypotheses for pterosaur diets and what kind of evidence has been used to support each. Cool comparative study.





Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12431

[Mini Minmi]

This so interesting, thank you for sharing!

Such a wide variety of skulls, it's like nature just went overboard with creativity.

[Faelrin]

It's interesting seeing all the diversity among their skull shapes here. Kind of reminds me of birds to be honest, and how they have different beaks depending on their diet/niche.

[Mini Minmi]

...Kind of reminds me of birds to be honest, and how they have different beaks depending on their diet/niche.

Good point. I was trying to find skulls nowadays that show such diversity in a same group of animals (up to a point there's a wide variety of different shapes in dog skulls but those were usually bred by humans so not exactly the same) but hadn't thought of beaks. While the skull part is mostly similar between birds, there are tons of different shapes and sizes of beaks for different roles, and all those evolved on their own, each for their own speciality.