So, for the first blog post ever… I have bad news for Jurassic Park fans… If you’re a paleonerd of a certain age, chances are that the name Cearadactylus means something to you. Not just “another pterosaur,” but that pterosaur, forever immortalized in the original Jurassic Park novel and later resurrected in the Jurassic World game. For many of us, Cearadactylus was iconic. That’s especially true for pterosaur fans, and for Brazilian paleonerds (hey, I’m both!). Well, I
Hi. I am Rubi Pêgas, and I am a paleontologist. More specifically, I study pterosaurs — those weird flying reptiles that look like nature briefly decided to experiment and then just… kept going. But before that, and very much still today, I am a paleonerd. This blog is for all of us who stop mid-scroll because a fossil reconstruction popped up, who wonder whether that pose really makes anatomical sense, who get excited about weird joints, membranes, teeth, tails, and all the
