What is "pterodactyls"

Usage examples of "pterodactyls".

If, as Lord John said, the glade of the iguanodons will remain with us as a dream, then surely the swamp of the pterodactyls will forever be our nightmare.

But while the Dinosaurs lorded it over the hot selvas and marshy plains and the Pterodactyls filled the forests with their flutterings and possibly with shrieks and croakings as they pursued the humming insect life of the still flowerless shrubs and trees, some less conspicuous and less abundant forms upon the margins of this abounding life were acquiring certain powers and learning certain lessons of endurance, that were to be of the utmost value to their race when at last the smiling generosity of sun and earth began to fade.

Our numbers and our noise had frightened all living creatures away, and save for a few pterodactyls, which soared round high above our heads while they waited for the carrion, all was still around the camp.

I was returning along the well-remembered route, and had reached a spot within a mile or so of the marsh of the pterodactyls, when I saw an extraordinary object approaching me.

Safety from the pterodactyls was secured by dashing under shelters that were erected conveniently.

At frequent intervals, they passed stoutly constructed canopies fashioned of poles, after the manner of big grapevines that had been erected as defense against the giant flying pterodactyls, only dangerous type of prehistoric life that could penetrate past the ponderous defensive gates into the valleys.

Above both houses and streets was a great trellis construction of stout poles—defense against the pterodactyls, the same as in the fields.

Angry pterodactyls swarmed in his way, screaming like maddened crows mobbing a jaybird.

The man fighting off the pterodactyls abruptly realized he was attracting attention to himself.

Kit wondered, having seen everything from giant pterodactyls to murderous Welsh bowmen stumble through unstable gates.

Perhaps it had secured quarry which the pterodactyls had chased into the thorns, on other occasions.

We know of the fossil remains of one bird at least which had reptilian teeth in its jaw and a long reptilian tail, but which also had a true bird's wing and which certainly flew and held its own among the pterodactyls of the Mesozoic time.

If a man could go back to typical Mesozoic country, he might walk for days and never see or hear such a thing as a bird, though he would see a great abundance of pterodactyls and insects among the fronds and reeds.

A careless observer might suppose that in this second long age of warmth and plenty that was now beginning, nature was merely repeating the first, with herbivorous and carnivorous mammals to parallel the herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs, with birds replacing pterodactyls and so on.

The pterodactyls had brains very similar to bird brains of today, not much larger, and they apparently did not have a sense of smell, capturing their food by sight alone.