Have learned the courtship display a huge pterosaur crest (Figure)

Leicester University researchers found that female pterosaur's head crest is no decoration, while the male pterosaur's head feathers, sometimes 5 times the length of the skull, they are by showing the beautiful crest, to potential mates courtship.

Pterosaurs living in the 220 to 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Through the study of fossils, many crested pterosaurs. Some of the most striking crest length, and sometimes actually pterosaur skull 5 times. Scientists have long speculated that the crest may be used to display or send their own courtship signals may have only male, not female. The pterosaur fossil found in Darwin, surrounded by eggs, indicating that it must be female. The discovery of this type are extremely rare in the fossil history, through which you can accurately determine the sex of fossil. It also confirmed that male and female pterodactyl pterosaur different. Qiu Ling