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Fish vs Pterosaur
« Thread Started on Mar 10, 2012, 8:55pm »
I know fossils have been found of fish trying to eat pterosaurs before, but these are some of the best photos I've seen of such a find! :o The article's content is not the best though.

http://www.livescience.com/18958-armored-fish-attacks-pterosaur.html
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #1 on Mar 10, 2012, 9:25pm »
That is cool!
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« Reply #2 on Mar 10, 2012, 9:33pm »
I saw that yesterday and immediately made it my desktop wallpaper. :)
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #3 on Mar 11, 2012, 1:10pm »
Just dam*!
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #4 on Mar 11, 2012, 2:44pm »
Has this been known about for a while? There is an illustration of exactly that in my pterosaur book.
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« Reply #5 on Mar 11, 2012, 8:31pm »
This is awesome! Do we know if the attack happened while the pterosaur was still living, though?
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #6 on Mar 11, 2012, 8:33pm »

Mar 11, 2012, 8:31pm, RobbieSKatz wrote:
This is awesome! Do we know if the attack happened while the pterosaur was still living, though?


I don't know if it was this particular fossil or not but one was found where the pterosaur had a fish in it's throat meaning it was likely caught by a fish while catching a fish.
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #7 on Mar 11, 2012, 9:27pm »
That's amazing... Paleo-karma at its finest.
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #8 on Mar 12, 2012, 6:24pm »
That's awesome! It's so brilliantly preserved.

What a cool fish ;D
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Re: Fish vs Pterosaur
« Reply #9 on Mar 13, 2012, 4:19am »

Mar 11, 2012, 8:31pm, RobbieSKatz wrote:
This is awesome! Do we know if the attack happened while the pterosaur was still living, though?


The article said they think the fish made a grab for the pterosaur and the fibers in the wing got caught in it's closely packed teeth. They guess that the fish thrashed about until tired and sank into the oxygen poor level of the lake where it suffocated.

This paper - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031945 says it was found in the Solnhofen Limestone in 2009.
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