How to Use pterosaur in a Sentence

pterosaur

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• The first thing to you'll notice about this pterosaur is its smile.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
• The more experts learned, the stranger pterosaurs became.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• And for a baby pterosaur, flying wasn't just a way to get around.
  — Megan Marples and Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 13 June 2019
• The pelvic bone would have belonged to a pterosaur with a wingspan of more than six feet.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• When pterosaurs thrived, the world would have looked like a very different place.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• The now extinct pterosaurs had them, as do bats and birds that are still alive today.
  — National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2017
• Other remains at the site hint at what the pterosaurs were eating.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2023
• One of the world’s largest named pterosaurs, Hatzegopteryx, also comes from the Hateg region.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2018
• The partial skull, more precisely, is the pterosaur’s crest.
  — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
• Coupled with the remnants of many pterosaur meals, this suggests a flock of pterosaurs may have gathered on the cliffs by the coast.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2023
• Found in northeast Brazil, this type of pterosaur had a wingspan of 16 feet and was known for its huge headcrest.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• But not everyone thinks the tiny pterosaurs were born air-worthy.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
• One crew applies a plaster cast to a bone from a pterosaur, a flying reptile, a rare find.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• Penny saw the pterosaur’s jaw peeking out from the limestone on a tidal platform, right after the tide had gone down.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
• Researchers learned that birds, pterosaurs and bird-like dinosaurs all lived in the environment at the same time.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
• Exhibits include a full-size pterosaur, a wooly mammoth, and touchable wolves and bears.
  — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• Other cool finds from the site include a fossilized pterosaur egg, the first found in North America.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 11 May 2022
• The bill clack from a giant pterosaur, one with a nine-foot-long skull, could have been deafening to a wide range of creatures at close range.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
• That was the Quetzalcoatlus, a type of pterosaur that once dominated the skies millions of years ago.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2021
• While there are big bats in the world, some with wingspans of more than 5 feet, there aren’t any as large as the biggest birds or the extinct, giraffe-size pterosaurs.
  — Riley Black, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• This shows that pterosaurs had the ability to live under cold and dark conditions.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 31 May 2023
• The fossil of a 96-million-year-old pterosaur has been discovered in the Australian outback.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Like many other flying species during that time, this pterosaur had bones that were hollow to aid in flight, Brown said.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• The team also classified the pterosaur fossil as the biggest to be discovered in South America and one of the largest in the world.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• More research is needed to understand how this affected the flight of the pterosaur.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
• Pteranodon was a large flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.
  — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
• The pterosaurs were an order of flying reptiles that went extinct some 66 million years ago.
  — Jason Bittel, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Scientists think this kind of pterosaur, with its large jaw and slim neck, preyed on fish, small mammals, and even baby dinosaurs.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2021
• The team then compared Archaeopteryx’s stats to those of 55 modern birds, two crocodilians, and two species of pterosaurs, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.
  — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2018
• This discovery marks the third species of anhanguerian pterosaur to be found in Australia.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024