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Are pterodactyls dinosaurs?
Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.
What are some flying dinosaurs?
pterodactyls quetzalcoatl pneumamicrodactyl biceridactyls
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.
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.
Were did the pterodactyl?
Pterodactyls were flying reptiles, slowly flourishing during the Mesozoic and disappearing with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
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.
Which small prehistoric flying animal got its name for Greek words meaning flying finger wing?
Pterodactyls or Pterosaurs were flying prehistoric lizards. Strictly, they were not dinosaurs.
What does pterodactyls name mean?
flying birdRunehally16's Answer: pter·o·dac·tyl /ˌterəˈdaktəl/What it basically refers to is a member of the pterasaur family, which was a group of large, flying dinosaurs with membranous wings and long, slender necks.
Was the pterodactyl a dinosaur?
Pterodactyl was a real animal. It was a type of flying reptile, but it was neither a dinosaur nor a bird.
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.
What was the flying dinosaur called?
The name Pterosaurs, often referred to as pterodactyls existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period (220 to 65.5 million years ago). They included the very small Nernicolopterus to the largest known flying creatures of all time, including Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx. See the related links for more information. However, technically the pterosaurs were not dinosaurs but a separate group of reptiles. The first known true dinosaur to fly was archeopteryx, the earliest known bird.
What do you call a dinosaur flying through the sky?
Birds are the only dinosaurs that could fly. However, there were flying reptiles that were not dinosaurs. They were called pterosaurs.
