> And its size "tells us that pterosaurs got larger much earlier than we thought, long before the Cretaceous period when they were competing with birds, and that's hugely significant".<p>This may be true, but "larger" is relative. This "largest Jurassic pterosaur" has a 2.5 m wing span -- comparable to a large RC airplane. In the Cretaceous, ptereosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus and others) exceeded four times that -- 10 m -- comparable to a small plane today.