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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.
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Are pterodactyls dinosaurs?
Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.
What are some flying dinosaurs?
pterodactyls quetzalcoatl pneumamicrodactyl biceridactyls
Are flying dinosaurs not called pterodactyls?
No. Pterodactyl was a pterosaur, and pterosaurs were technically not dinosaurs, though they are often incorrectly referred to as such.
Are the dinosaurs that fly belong to dinosaur family?
Pterodactyls and Pterodons are not dinosaurs, but pterosaurs, an order of reptiles all its own. There are flying dinosaurs however; many scientists now agree that modern birds are, in fact, dinosaurs.
Did dinosours fly?
Technically, no, dinosaurs did not fly because the term "dinosaurs" refers to just terrestrial (land-dwelling) reptiles. However, pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) did have the ability to fly.
Were did the pterodactyl?
Pterodactyls were flying reptiles, slowly flourishing during the Mesozoic and disappearing with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Were pterodactyls dinosurs?
Pterodactylus were pterosaurs, and although pterosaurs are often called "flying dinosaurs," they were not dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but they don't share the same common ancestor as dinosaurs and thus don't fall into the clade Dinosauria.
When did pterodactyls start turning into birds?
Pterodactyls never turned into birds. The whole clade Pterosauria went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, and birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs some 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic.
What other animals disappeared from earth at the same time as the dinosaurs?
Even though the dinosaurs were the most common species on the planet there were many large insects such as dragon flies and cockroaches that died out. Along with these were types of fish, plenty of bacteria, maybe some basic mammals, some primitive birds, and pterodactyls. I counted pterodactyls separate because even tough they look it. They were not dinosaurs.
Are the dinosaurs in Dino lab real?
Sorry but no they are not real. The are, actual or smaller size replicas of Dinosaurs the had lived 65 Billion years ago. Currently no known Species of Dinosaurs live on the planet. The closest resemblance of a Dinosaur are birds, which have evolved from Theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, that are currently not extinct. These Theropod dinosaurs a furthermore recognized as pterodactyls. Pterodactyls were the majority of airborne creatures in the Jurassic period and had the highest probability of survival.
What are some elephants that were alive when dinosaurs where still alive?
Elephants and their relatives first appeared in the past 30 million years or so. Dinosaurs apart from birds went extinct 65.5 million years ago. So no elephants were around at the same time as non-avian dinosaurs.
What type of dinosurs could fly?
actually no dinosaurs ever flew. pterodactyls and the often called dinobird archaeopteryx were ancient flying creatures, but none of them are classified as dinos.
