![]() Those trips, did, however, help inspire his name for the new species. Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London, himself has looked for pterosaur fossils in the park annually for seven years, but hasn't yet found any. The species was identified from fossils collected by paleontologists and local residents over several decades in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park. The species, Cryodrakon boreas, means "frozen dragon of the north wind," said David Hone, lead author of a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. A huge, flying reptile that weighed as much as several adult humans combined and had the wingspan of a small plane soared over Alberta during the Age of Dinosaurs - and researchers have now identified it as a new species.
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