Dr. Dean Lomax

Yeah.

It's really kind of like solidified in people's minds of like the typical... The poster boy for that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Poster boy, the kind of like meat-eating dinosaur.

Is it not?

No, no, no, it's not.

So pterodactyl, so they're flying reptiles.

And they were, again, alive at the same time as dinosaurs.

But if you think of family tree, they split off kind of roughly about 240 odd million years ago.

So things like the ichthyosaurs, swimming reptiles, a bit like that.

But pterosaurs and dinosaurs do share, they're basically like cousins.

Right, right.

Yeah.

I think altogether, if you measured it, if you straightened it out, it's about nearly 30 centimetres.

And it would have been longer as well.

So if you imagine like for what we've got on our nails, so that in our nails and our hair is keratin.

Yeah.

And that would have had, if you imagine kind of like a rhino, that keratinous sheath on its horn.

So it would have had a layer over the top of that.

So it would probably have added another five centimetres or something.