The head of Quetzalcoatlus

Well after a typically exhausting trans-continental flight (well, two continents really) I’m back in the UK though tired and perhaps understandably not best suited to blogging, but with SVP and a well earned break for me coming up, this may be it for a while (bar the odd post like this I suspect). So for now, have the head of the giant azdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus taken in the Museo del Desierto in Mexico. Although there is some skull material for this genus, it has never been well described and is incomplete hence the variation you can see among the various reconstructions of the head though this one is pretty typical and probably fairly accurate.