Fossils tell story of baby flying reptiles doomed by tropical storms

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean – the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea – one day roughly 150 million years ago, and a baby pterosaur was caught in the powerful winds.

The tiny flying reptile hatchling already was capable of flight even at its tender age, but this storm was too much. The wind