In what can be described as an incredible find, Chilean scientists have announced the discovery for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere of the remains of a “winged lizard” of the Jurassic period. This creature is known as a pterosaur.

The discovery of this fossil of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago in what is presently known as Atacama desert was made in 2009.

The remains have now been confirmed to be that of a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur — the first such creature to be found in Gondwana.

Gondwana, was the prehistoric supercontinent that later formed the Southern Hemisphere landmasses.

Sharing details of this creature, 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. “We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date,” he remarked.

In the scientific journal Acta Paleontologica Polonic, scientists reported that the discovery was also "the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile”.