The Pterosaur Heresies

Middle Triassic Cosesaurus is central to understanding the origin of pterosaurs, but you won’t learn about this in Pterosaurs 101.

Long, low, robust, weasel-like placentals presently nest closest to the base of the pinnipeds = seals, sea lions and walruses.

According to Academia and Wikipedia: “An oreodont [Merycoidodontoidea, 35 to 5mya] is an extinct, sheep-sized hoofed mammal that lived in North America between 40 million and 5.3 million years.

El Fassi El Fehri et al 2026 described the taxonomy and phylogeny of British ‘cephalaspids’.

Tihelka E et al 2026 redescribed Carboniferous Chosha praecursor (Fig 1), an ‘amphibious’ bristletail with small, weak legs and large pleopods.

Blame this long overdue oversight on me.

Tissier and Smith 2026 revealed through phylogenetic analysis “Hyracotherium is Not a Horse: For over a century, Hyracotherium (also called Eohippus) was taught as the earliest direct ancestor of horses.

Here is a YouTube video link to a topic titled, “Evolutions of Dinosaur Flight – The Many Ways to Almost Make a Bird” by ‘Your Dinosaurs are Wrong’ from one day ago.

Yang et al 2026 described Middle Triassic Spatulidentatus breviceps (Figs 1–3, GMG10, 2.7m long) as a basal sauropterygian with a small head.

With widespread damages over most of the planet Earth following in the wake of the asteroid impact(s) and Deccan Traps around 66mya, where did the surviving few plants and animals find refuge?