Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms.

While the bigger reptiles in the late Jurassic era are the big bones that visitors flock to see at museums around the world, the little creatures are less talked about because the fossilization process was harder on the smaller critters, according to University of Leicester paleontologists behind a new study about two tiny reptiles.

In the case of two baby pterosaurs, named Lucky and Lucky II, the conditions in the 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestones of southern Germany were perfect to preserve these tiny flying reptiles.

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