NOUN
- an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb
How To Use flying reptile In A Sentence
- Now a newly described fossil of a flying reptile called a pterosaur has been found to have a spinosaur tooth stuck in its spine.
- No matter a persons' level of scientific knowledge most can identify a picture of a flying reptile as a "pterodactyl". Archive 2009-07-01
- A pterosaur is a flying reptile from the Mesozoic period, the time of the dinosaurs.
- A mere explanation that a pterodactyl was a kind of flying reptile belonging to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods was insufficient. DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL
- Of the pterosaur —a flying reptile—the researchers found a large fragment of beak.
- Today paleontologists know the Badlands are full of bones of mosasaurs (giant marine reptiles that plied an inland sea there during the Cretaceous period) and pterosaurs (giant flying reptiles).
- Over the head of Tyrannosaurus rex glides the skeleton of Pteranodon, a pterosaur or flying reptile.
- Pteranodons were flying reptiles (pterosaurs) that were about 6 feet (1.8 m) long, had a 25-33 foot (7. 8-10 m) wingspread, and weighed about 35 pounds; its standing height was about 6 feet (1.8 m). Pteranodon/Pterosaur Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
- Fossils of flying reptiles come in two versions: the older long-tailed pterosaurs and the more recent short-tailed versions. Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile
- You see, there's this sort of dragonlike flying reptile that used to exist, called a pterodactyl, and this is a flying moon, so - Yon Ill Wind