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** ''Aspidorhynchus'' (the fish that attacked the ''Rhamphorhynchus'') probably wasn't preying on pterosaurs as Witton previously thought; it's now believed that ''Aspidorhynchus'' may have attacked the ''Rhamphorhynchus'' by accident while aiming for a fish the ''Rhamphorhynchus'' had eaten/was chasing. The details are still unclear, though and it isn't the only example of an ''Aspidorhynchus'' attacking a ''Rhamphorhynchus''...
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* ScienceMarchesOn:
** ''Hatzegopteryx'' turned out to be much beefier than the book portrays it.
** Sometime in 2014, Henderson and Hone did a paper on swimming pterosaurs and concluded that they were probably not capable of the duck-like floating Witton portrays them as accomplishing, being more like otters or crocodiles when floating. Witton acknowledged this in a later blog post, though he stands by his view that seagoing pterosaurs were efficient swimmers as long as they could keep their nostrils out of the water while swimming.
** ''Hatzegopteryx'' turned out to be much beefier than the book portrays it.
** Sometime in 2014, Henderson and Hone did a paper on swimming pterosaurs and concluded that they were probably not capable of the duck-like floating Witton portrays them as accomplishing, being more like otters or crocodiles when floating. Witton acknowledged this in a later blog post, though he stands by his view that seagoing pterosaurs were efficient swimmers as long as they could keep their nostrils out of the water while swimming.
