{"id":505734,"date":"2024-03-12T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=505734"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:36:43","slug":"pterosaur-ancestor-had-a-beak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/pterosaur-ancestor-had-a-beak\/","title":{"rendered":"Pterosaur ancestor had a beak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_505683\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-505683 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RPF-notas-pterossauro-2023-09-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RPF-notas-pterossauro-2023-09-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RPF-notas-pterossauro-2023-09-1140-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RPF-notas-pterossauro-2023-09-1140-700x465.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RPF-notas-pterossauro-2023-09-1140-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Caio Fantini<\/span>Artistic depiction of <em>Venetoraptor gassenae<\/em>, which was probably carnivorous and climbed trees<span class=\"media-credits\">Caio Fantini<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A reptile with a curved beak capable of tearing apart pieces of meat, and \u201chands\u201d with long fingers and sharp, curved claws, ideal for grasping branches. This is <em>Venetoraptor gassenae <\/em>of the Lagerpetidae family, a species that lived around 230 million years ago, measured approximately 1 meter in length, weighed between 4 and 8 kilograms, and walked on its two hind legs. The description was based on a well-preserved fossil found in the municipality of S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o do Pol\u00easine, Rio Grande do Sul: the skull, with the tip of the jaw and the orbit intact, as well as the hand with long fingers, particularly the fourth digit. \u201cThis is the elongated finger in pterosaurs that supports the wing,\u201d explains paleontologist Rodrigo Temp M\u00fcller of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Even more interesting is that the finding challenges the idea that animals of the period were generic and uniform. \u201cWith this unusual discovery, we began to realize that this hypothesis was wrong,\u201d says M\u00fcller. \u201cDinosaurs and pterosaurs would have been selected from these very diverse lineages.\u201d (<em>Nature<\/em>, August 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"230 million years ago, bipedal animal with long fingers surprisingly had a beak","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[231,255],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-505734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-evolution","tag-paleontology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505736,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505734\/revisions\/505736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=505734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}