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Who discovererd the pterodactyl?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Cosimo Collini, an Italian naturalist, discovered the first pterodactyl fossil in 1784, but thought it was a sea animal, and had large flippers instead of wings. But in 1801, Georges Cuvier started the idea that it was a flying creature.

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