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Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoI think you're trying to say Pterodactyl. No, the Pterodactyl wasn't a dinosaur. It was just a flying reptile.
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They are not dinosaurs
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Pterodactyls are not dinosaurs
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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.
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 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.
How did pterodactyls get extinct?
Pterodactyls were a particular type of small, flying reptile. Nobody knows the specific reason pterodactyls died out. However, flying reptiles, or pterosaurs, continued to exist until 65.5 million years ago. At that point, an asteroid crashed into Earth, throwing dust into the air that blocked sunlight long enough to collapse the food chain and wipe out not only dinosaurs, but pterosaurs as well.
How were pterodactyls differant from most dinosaurs?
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.
Was pterodactyl ancestor of birds?
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.
