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• There were exceptions: K.A. von Zittel (1882) imagined pterosaurs as possessing narrow, swallow-like wings that did not attach further distally than the knee, and Harry Seeley (1901) opined that the patagia may not have incorporated the hindlimbs at all. Archive 2006-05-01
• Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates, or animals with backbones, to flap their wings and fly.
• This indicates that broad-chord patagia are both widely distributed within pterosaurs, and the norm for the group. Archive 2006-05-01
• 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
• A golobal overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time. p187-198. Flugsaurier: Pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer
• Protohadros was a large ornithopod native to Texas, living at the very end of the Early Cretaceous period, right before the big extinction in the Turonian that knocked off the stegosaurs, a lot of the pterosaurs, and others. Life's Time Capsule: Thoughts on Palaeoart II
• The most amazing fact about the evolution of flight is the extent of convergent evolution between the three main groups that evolved it (again, the pterosaurs, birds, and bats).
• See purple - red sandstone layers in the fossil pieces retained, Dong initially that this is pterosaur fossil.
• When the researchers compared the pterosaur brains with those of modern birds, they bore some similarities, but most notably the pterosaurs had an unusually large part of the brain known as the flocculus and large inner ear canals.