Fossil Hunter Discovers Flying Dinosaur on the Isle of Wight

People who get excited about dinosaurs are excited about a very small part of a dinosaur that's been uncovered, not because it's new or contains genetic material that could be used to bring it back to life and raised for gourmet burger meat, but because it was found on the Isle of Wight.

This is exciting, dinosaur experts explain as we look at our phones pretending to listen, because it's of a type of flying pterosaur only found in China and Brazil up until now. This tells us that the crested tapejarid may have been more widely spread than previously thought. Either that or it was capable of international flight. Or maybe Brazil and China were joined to the Isle of Wight back then. Look, I really don't know, OK? They're excited and think this is a big deal, so I'm trying to relay and replicate that without knowing exactly why.

Fossil enthusiast and palaeontology PhD student Megan Jacobs spotted the tapejarid jaw bone fragment in possession of a friend who'd got it from an amateur hunter, who found it in Sandown Bay. Then everyone got excited because it's the first one ever found in the UK. So when you next imagine dinosaurs, you should adjust your mental imagery to include more flying ones than you might've done when imagining dinosaurs before. [BBC]