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Pterodactylus, a single species of pterosaur, died out around 148.5 million years ago, or 83 million years before the K-T extinction event. However, pterosaurs, or flying reptiles, did die out 65.5 million years ago during the same cataclysmic event that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and 75% of Earth's species. Most scientists believe that this event, the K-T Extinction, was the result of a 6 mile wide asteroid that smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, leaving a 100 mile wide crater. So much dust and ash was launched into the atmosphere that sunlight was blocked for months or years. This caused plants to die, and thus the animals that ate them also died. In turn, the carnivores starved, and that would have included the pterosaurs.
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Is pterodactyl extinct?
Yes. Pterodactyl has been extinct for about 150 million years. Pterosaurs as a whole went extinct 65.5 million years ago.
Where to find pterodactyl?
You can no longer find pterodactyls, they are extinct.
What do Hippos Asian Elephants and Pterodactyl have in common?
Animals. Extinct (or endangered).
How do you spell taridaktil the right way?
Pterodactyl. An extinct flying dinosaur.
How do you spell ptyerdactial?
The correct spelling is pterodactyl (an extinct flying dinosaur, or pterosaur).
How do you spell pheradactale?
The extinct flying reptile or pterosaur, genus Pterodactylus, is spelled pterodactyl.
How does a pterodactyl kill its prey?
It doesnt. They are extinct. When they were alive, they would swoop down like a hawk.
Are there flying pterodactyls in papau new guinea?
No. Pterosaurs such as pterodactyl have been extinct for millions of years.
What were 3 dinos that went extinct 65 million years ago?
Pterodactyl, Tyrannosaurus Rex, brontosaurus.
What is the pterodactyl game?
Pterodactyl is a game where you cant show your teeth and you have to go in a circle and keep saying pterodactyl and if some one squaks at you, its like a reverse in uno. If you show your teeth, your out.
I found a supposedly extinct animal whether you believe me or not it resembles a pterodactyl and it probably died about a couple of weeks ago who do I call about this?
Contact your local museum or university.
What is a sentence with the word extinct?
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Humans will never go extinct!
