This is a pterodactyl, or flying reptile, which vaguely reminds me of some bird from the present day. Ironically, we both tried to photograph it on our first visit with the Z7 and Sony, but the best picture was from my iPhone on our second trip there.
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The “dinosaur exhibit” -- as everybody calls it, although it’s much more than that -- in the newly reopened fossil hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is fascinating.
Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.
The contortionist, posted earlier: