Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago. |
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I was inhaling ancient molecular effluvia of dimetrodons and plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and tyrannosauruses. |
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It mimics birds, bats or pterodactyls of the dinosaur era, and has membranous wings. |
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Based on widely accepted criteria, pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. |
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Help Jaspy reach the top jumping from one cloud to the other and paying attention not to be caught by the big beaks of the pterodactyls. |
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Other anatomical features, such as attachment points for powerful neck muscles, support the idea that giant pterodactyls once plowed the waters for food. |
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Earlier, Witmer and others had performed a similar study on fossils of the flying reptiles called pterodactyls, which are not related to Archaeopteryx. |
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This is the story of violence, betrayal, love, and survival told in a series of monosyllabic guttural sounds, set against the backdrop of volcanic eruptions and pterodactyls. |
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Academics have tried their hand at mimicking nature, basing robots on everything from termites to pterodactyls. |
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But then, we can detect pterodactyls and quarks only indirectly too. |
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This fictional development of human and non-human communities in the Earth's interior ceased at an age that seems to combine various chapters of our own prehistory, an age when man and pterodactyls co-habited. |
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Firstly, has Terry bad-mouthed any pterodactyls recently, or 'is it cos I is green? |
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With their long wings and crooked necks, these birds look a little like pterodactyls, or flying dinosaurs, that have been around since the age of the dinosaur. |
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Pterodactyls could pluck swimsuited toddlers from the shoreline and folks would go right on fishing. |
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Pterodactyls, or, more correctly, pterodactyloids, are distinguished from basal pterosaurs by their reduced teeth, tail, and fifth toe. |
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