Near the coast of present-day Brazil, marine sediment preserved a bird-like pterosaur with a 10-foot wingspan, disproportionately large head and prominent cranial crest for a hundred million years.
In 2015, Aude Cincotta, a paleontology Ph.D. student at the University of Namur, realized with her colleagues that they were looking at a remarkable fossil. It contained the large, mostly intact head crest of an adult Tupandactylus imperator.
