Pterodactyl: Members Of The Sterosaur Family
The pterodactyl is the most well known member of the pterosaur family. The pterodactyl was a flying dinosaur that was a predator and carnivore. The pterodactyl was much like a raptor in today's age. It ate fish and other small animals like small reptiles and other small mammals. The pterodactyl was alive during the late jurassic epoch. It lived on many different continents. It lived in Europe, Australia, North America, and Africa. The pterodactyl was one of the smaller members of the pterosaur family. It had a short tail, unlike other members of the pterosaur families that had long tails, and a crest on the top of its head that grew as the pterodactyl aged. It had a large beak that had 90 small sharp teeth that were made for eating. Unlike what many people believed, it didn’t hop on its back leg, it walked on all fours.
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This was because the pterodactyl had an adapted extra long fourth finger that held the wing. The pterodactyl was one of the only members of its family that was capable of “flapping flight.” This meant that it was capable of powering itself through the air by flapping its wings. Scientists believe that to take off the pterodactyl would use its claws to climb trees and then jump out of it instead of taking off from the ground. Other members of the pterodactyls family had feathers on them but scientists are still unsure whether the pterodactyl had feathers on it or
This was because the pterodactyl had an adapted extra long fourth finger that held the wing. The pterodactyl was one of the only members of its family that was capable of “flapping flight.” This meant that it was capable of powering itself through the air by flapping its wings. Scientists believe that to take off the pterodactyl would use its claws to climb trees and then jump out of it instead of taking off from the ground. Other members of the pterodactyls family had feathers on them but scientists are still unsure whether the pterodactyl had feathers on it or