Pterosaurus

The pterosauri flew from tree to tree, spreading out the flying membrane that stretched from their enormously long fifth finger to the legs, and even to the tail.

Now, according to the geological successions, we have, first of all, the invertebrates (Protozoic Epoch—Cambrian Period), then the vertebrates, and these in the following order: first, the Cyclostomes (Silurian), then the cartilaginous fish (Devonian), then the stegocephalian amphibians (Carboniferous) , followed by the reptiles, whose apogee is reached in the Secondary, or Mesozoic, Age with the ichthyosauri, the stegosauri and the pterosauri: […]

We’re interested in the last, the Cainozoic era. This is the era that really concerns us. This was the time when the pterodactyls and pterosauri flew south.

Or, while marvelling at the ingenuity of Nature, one can sing incantations that cause the clouds to assume fantastic shapes: dinosaurs, glyptodons and pterosauruses frolic across the sky.

Pterosauruses are giant birds that lived during prehistoric times. In a book called Dinosaurs in Your Backyard, author William Mannetti tries to prove why the Pteranodon is the most interesting kind of pterosaurus.

The muscles that pterosauruses used to fly were not as developed as those that birds use today.

Examples of gerrymandering still abound, with many districts being shaped like forms of animal life, both extinct and contemporary, such as snakes, tadpoles, and pterosauruses.

They came onto a stretch of beach which looked onto the Bismarck Sea and onto the Pacific Ocean. Turning back, you could still make out the outline of the mainland, volcanic mountains rising above the cityscape. Alexa wondered what the point of all this was, whether Robbie had come here to be eaten by pterosauruses or tyrannoraptors or whatever they were called, it was Donny who had been into dinosaurs, not her.