If the Pteranodon longiceps fossilised skeleton sells within its anticipated price range of USD $6.0 to 8.0 million, it will become one of the most valuable fossils of all-time.

Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby's senior vice president, talks about the pteranodon fossil skeleton on display at Sotheby's during a media preview, Monday, July 10, 2023, in New York. NEW YORK — The ...

Rare 89-million-year-old flying reptile fossil from Texas may be world's oldest pteranodon. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 03 / 110301122142.htm ...

Almost all of the original fossil bones remain on the pteranodon's remains and are essentially unrestored, meaning that artificial filler was not used to replace missing bone sections.

The flying reptile fossil from a pterosaur species known as Pteranodon was first discovered in the Smoky Hill Chalk region of Kansas (which was once an ocean) in the 1960s.

The pteranodon, a massive 25-foot flying reptile, is one of the best-known fossils around the world, Everhart said. The first recorded discovery of a tylosaurus was made in 1868 near Monument Rocks.

The fossil, kept at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, shows a tooth from a large Cretoxyrhina mantelli shark lodged between the neck vertebrae of a Pteranodon, a flying reptile that ...

Although the mating rituals of Pteranodon remain speculative, one aspect of its behavior is clear from the fossil record. The remains of Pteranodon are found in rocks that lay more than a hundred ...

Fossil bones of the Pteranodon—named “Horus” in honor of an ancient Egyptian deity of kingship, protection, and sky—were found by an anonymous fossil hunter in 2002 in Logan County in Kansas.

Mr. Conductor takes the Pteranodon family on a very special journey through the different layers of the Earth where fossils can be found. 02/20/2017 | Expires 08/22/2025 | Rating TV-Y See all ...

It was a fossil of a Pteranodon discovered in the 1960s that held the clue. When scientists took it from storage to study, they were amazed to discover a shark's tooth stuck in the Pteranodon's spine.