A fossil of giant flying pterosaurs has been found in a quarry

The wing bone belonged to a flying reptile with a wingspan of around 12ft that lived during the Jurassic period.

The wing bone belonged to a flying reptile with a wingspan of around 12ft that lived during the Jurassic period.

A team of palaeontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three metres -- making it one of the largest pterosaurs ever found from that era.