Phys.org reveals the dinosaur to be the rhamphorhynchine pterosaur, a flying lizard-type being that lived during the Jurassic era about 160 million years yore.

Jhonatan Alarcon of the University of Chile—one of the scientists who studied the fossil— describes how, in life, the pterosaur had a wingspan of roughly two meters (or roughly 6.5 feet), a lengthy tail, and a pointed snout (again, not entirely unlike those well-known fire-breathing, knight-fighting mythical creatures).

On top of that, the discovery of this fossil not only happens to be “the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile,” but in the entire Southern Hemisphere.

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