<p>Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era "winged lizard" known as a pterosaur.</p>.<p>Fossils of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago in what is today the Atacama desert, were unearthed in 2009.</p>.<p>They have now been confirmed to be of a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur -- the first such creature to be found in Gondwana, the prehistoric supercontinent that later formed the southern hemisphere landmasses.</p>.<p>Researcher Jhonatan Alarcon of the University of Chile said the creatures had a wingspan of up to two meters, a long tail, and pointed snout.</p>.<p>"We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date," he added.</p>.<p>The discovery was also "the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile," the scientists reported in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>
<p>Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era "winged lizard" known as a pterosaur.</p>.<p>Fossils of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago in what is today the Atacama desert, were unearthed in 2009.</p>.<p>They have now been confirmed to be of a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur -- the first such creature to be found in Gondwana, the prehistoric supercontinent that later formed the southern hemisphere landmasses.</p>.<p>Researcher Jhonatan Alarcon of the University of Chile said the creatures had a wingspan of up to two meters, a long tail, and pointed snout.</p>.<p>"We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date," he added.</p>.<p>The discovery was also "the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile," the scientists reported in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest videos from <i data-stringify-type="italic">DH</i>:</strong></p>