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What are the pterosaur's prey?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

There are over 135 different known genera of pterosaurs, and each species would have had different types of prey. Small pterosaurs like Pterodactylus probably ate insects, small land animals, and fish. Large pterosaurs such as Pteranodon probably ate fish, while other large pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus would have eaten small land animals, albeit larger than the prey of Pterodactylus.

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