“They first had to go through the hangar-high hall with the crouching pterodactyl and its massive, hulking neighbour.”

“They cast doubt, that is, on the theory that the horse is descended from the pterodactyl.”

“At the same time in Paris, a pterodactyl egg, 136 million years old, has mysteriously hatched, and the bird spreads terror.”

“Over the head of Tyrannosaurus rex glides the skeleton of Pteranodon, a pterosaur or flying reptile.”

“Now a newly described fossil of a flying reptile called a pterosaur has been found to have a spinosaur tooth stuck in its spine.”

“A pterosaur is a flying reptile from the Mesozoic period, the time of the dinosaurs.”

“With another metallic cry, the pteranodon increased its speed in a wide, dropping curve.”

“About the spot where the pteranodon had fallen glittered little flashes of phosphorescence.”

“Novelties include the pteranodon, which is not, as its name suggests, a cleansing solution for dentures but a cousin of the pterodactyl.”

“Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago.”

“I was inhaling ancient molecular effluvia of dimetrodons and plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and tyrannosauruses.”

“Based on widely accepted criteria, pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.”