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The two-year-old, who was found under a pile of blankets with “traumatic injuries from head to toe” on 30 June 2023, officially died from a bone marrow embolism as a consequence of skeletal trauma.

Last week, about a dozen patients, some with skin lesions from head to toe, were isolated in a white tent, waiting for lab confirmation they had mpox.

The early pterosaurs had short heads on short necks, a short bone in the wrist of the wing, a long 5th toe on the foot and long tails, and the pterodactyloids had the opposite: large heads on long necks, a long wrist, short 5th toe and short tail.

It retains a very pterodactyloid-like head and neck, but also shows a longer wrist, and a shorter toe and tail than earlier darwinopterans but these are not as extreme as those seen in the pterodactyloids.

While not every specimen is complete, we can now trace the increase in size of the head and neck, the elongating wrist, shrinking toe and tail and other features step-by-step across multiple groups.