A large body, a wide snout, a long pointed tail and large curved teeth: no, it’s not your latest Tinder match - it’s the Dearc, a genus of rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur that has been proposed based on fragmentary fossil remains. There’s only one specimen, and it was found on the peninsula of Trotternish, part of the Isle of Skye in north-west Scotland.

Although the specimen recovered was a juvenile and still growing, it still had an estimated wingspan of 2.5 to 3 metres. That makes the Dearc one of the largest known Jurassic pterosaurs and potentially the largest flying animal of its time. Its discovery also made palaeontologists rethink the origin of large pterosaurs, concluding that they actually reached greater body sizes much earlier than once thought.