Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs - Natalia Jagielska
Channel: Genuine Rockstars
Date: 2022-03-21

The first Genuine Rockstar we interviewed is Vertebrate Palaeontologist Natalia Jagielska from the University of Edinburgh! 
She explains how she ended up studying pterosaur evolution in the Jurassic period and how pterosaurs are not dinosaurs! 

Check the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.073

Please follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WryCritic and if you're interested in the wonderful handmade stuffed extinct beasties by Rebecca Groom (a.k.a. Palaeoplushies) then please check: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/


Credits for the images and footage in this video:

The Geological time scale - Ray Troll
Dearc sgiathanach - Natalia Jagielska
Isle of Skye1 - Frank Winkler (pixabay)
Isle of Skye2 - A P (unsplash)
Natalia & Dearc - University of Edinburgh
Solnhofen Limestone quarry - PePeEfe (Wikipedia)
Holotype specimen of Bellubrunnus (from Solnhofen) - Hone et al. (2012) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0039312
Pteranodon (AMNH) - Matt Martyniuk (Wikipedia)
Hatzegopteryx - Mark Witton (Naish & Witton 2017) 
https://peerj.com/articles/2908/
Rhamphorhynchus - Natalia Jagielska
Azhdarchid ontogeny - Mark Witton (Naish, Witton & Martin-Silverstone 2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92499-z
Basic phylogenetic tree - Melanie During
Lagerpetid reconstruction - Rodolfo Nogueira
Pterosaur phylogeny - Natalia Jagielska
Basic avian dinosaur tree - Dennis Voeten
Dearc sgiathanach - Natalia Jagielska
Bats - pixabay
Archaeopteryx over the Solnhofen archipelago - Melanie During
Rhamphorhynchus catching squid - CK and Beat Scheffold (Hoffmann et al., 2020)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57731-2
Archaeopteryx - Zdeněk Burian
Edinburgh - Jillian Kim (unsplash)
Manchester - Toa Heftiba (unsplash)
Scott Monument - Vishwajeet Sawant (unsplash)
Warsaw1 - PolishSights (pixabay)
Sunrise -pixabay
Warsaw2 - PolishSights (pixabay)