No. Birds evolved from a group of small carnivorous dinosaurs related to the "raptors."
Pterosaurs were closely related to the dinosaurs. Because birds have descended from dinosaurs, the closest living relatives of pterosaurs are birds. All birds are equally related to pterosaurs.
Pterodactylus was a pterosaur, and pterosaurs were archosaurs. All pterosaurs died out 65.5 million years ago. Other types of archosaurs include crocodillians, the dinosaurs, and the birds, which evolved from dinosaurs. The pterosaurs were more closely related to the dinosaurs than they were to crocodillians, so the closest living relatives of pterosaurs are the birds. All birds are equally related to pterosaurs.
Pterodactylus was a pterosaur, and pterosaurs were archosaurs. All pterosaurs died out 65.5 million years ago. Other types of archosaurs include crocodillians, the dinosaurs, and the birds, which evolved from dinosaurs. The pterosaurs were more closely related to the dinosaurs than they were to crocodillians, so the closest living relatives of pterosaurs are the birds. All birds are equally related to pterosaurs.
Neither. Pteranodons were part of a group of reptiles separate from dinosaurs and birds called the pterosaurs.
False, pterosaurs were flying reptiles.
No. Pterosaurs share a common ancestor with the dinosaurs, but are not classed as dinosaurs themselves. Birds, however, descend from a group of dinosaurs called theropods; the earliest bird know, Archaeopteryx, dates to about 150 million years ago. The theropods also include dinosaurs such as T. rex, velociraptors, and other bird-like dinosaurs.
Birds are the only dinosaurs that could fly. However, there were flying reptiles that were not dinosaurs. They were called pterosaurs.
There were several types of ancient reptiles that flew. Most famously the pterosaurs such as pterodactyl (Pterodactylus) were the 1st vertibrates to evolve flight.Also it is quite likely that some species of the Dromaeosauridae family of theropod dinosaurs flew. They were later to evolve into birds. Infact the simularity between Dromaeosauride species and birds have led some scientist to argue for reclassification to birds.
When people first saw squirrels traveling in the air, they thought they were flying like birds and/or bats, not gliding. It took people a while to realize the squirrels were really gliding, not flying.
Pterodactylus and other flying reptiles, collectively known as pterosaurs, do not belong to the clade Dinosauria, and thus aren't dinosaurs. This is because they did not evolve from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. All dinosaurs were terrestrial animals, and with the exception of birds, they couldn't fly. All pterosaurs were winged quadrupeds, and at least most of them were capable of flight.
Soaring & gliding flight involve little wing movement. Birds soar & glide with their wings extended.
You are probably thinking of extinct creatures such as pterosaurs and archaeopteryx.