Extinct winged "lizard"

Usage examples of pterosaur.

Recently, Kevin Padian has noted a similarity between the hind limbs and feet of pterosaurs and dinosaurs, suggesting that they may have been bipedal, walking only on their hind legs.

In the sea, this included the mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and ichthyosaurs, and in the air, pterosaurs.

A group of pterosaurs had been working the ocean, skimming low over the surface seeking to scoop up fish in their hydrodynamically elegant beaks.

A common misconception is that birds and bats evolved from pterosaurs, but the differences in the wing show otherwise.

And, say, speaking of odd bone structureit never quite seemed possible to me that Archaeopteryx and the pterosaurs could really fly.

But as the orniths approached, coelurosaurs scuttled away and pterosaurs flapped awkwardly into the air.

Like pterosaurs waiting to make sure something is dead before they come down.

There were flocks of birds, and birdlike, furry pterosaurs, some of whom built huge rafts to support their nests at the center of the lakes, far from the land-based predators.

As more pterosaurs were attracted, the sky became darkened by their gaunt wings.

Birds and pterosaurs flew from their nests and roosting places, already startled by a threat they could not understand, seeking the comfort of the air.

The ground was now littered by debris from inland, bits of smashed trees and crushed animals, dead or dying pterosaurs and birds, even lake-bottom ooze.

Any birds in the air disappeared in a puff of flame, and the pterosaurs vanished into the maw of extinction.

These pterosaurs evolved from reptiles that had learned to glide during the Triassic.

Some pterosaurs were more light-weight because they no longer had bony tails, and some had unusual heads.

The carnosaurs and sauropods were stomping and hissing in their pens, as if angry at being awakened by the squawking of the pterosaurs.