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Researchers from Mansoura University in Egypt have identified the country's first confirmed pterosaur fossil, a wing bone from a flying reptile that lived in what is now Egypt approximately 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.

The discovery was made by a team from the university's Mansoura Vertebrate Palaeontology Centre (Sallam Lab), led by palaeontologist Hisham Sallam, in collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Environment, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the United States.

The fossil, a rare wing bone recovered from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt's Western Desert, provides the first definitive record of pterosaurs in the country and offers new insights into the prehistoric ecosystem that once covered northern Egypt.