This is an artist’s impression of a flying reptile called Quetzalcoatlus eating a small dinosaur.

这是一幅艺术家为羽蛇龙这种飞行爬虫所绘制的想象图。

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This is an artist's impression of a flying reptile called Quetzalcoatlus eating a small dinosaur.

这是一幅艺术家为羽蛇龙这种飞行爬虫所绘制的想象图。

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It now has scientists thinking the extinct flying reptile had a wingspan of up to seven metres, two or three metres bigger than previously thought.

现如今，科学家们认为，这种已经灭绝的、可飞行的爬行类动物的翼展可达到7米长，比先前的设想要长2米或者3米。

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Lu Junchang of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues, however, think that they may have done so in the case of a newly discovered flying reptile called Darwinopterus modularis.

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