Pterodactyl
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(trdk´tl), popular term for a pterosaur.
Pterodactyls,
winged lizard
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They include:
Pterodactylus: With a wingspan of 75 cm, it had long, narrow jaws with sharp teeth. It lived in the late Jurassic.
"Archaeopteryx lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterodactylus von Solnhofen" (in German). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1861: 678-679.
^ Owen, Richard. (1863).
Many bones formerly referred to birds have since proved to belong to Pterodactyls, e.g. Cimoliornis from the English Chalk. But in 1858 were discerned in the Upper Greensand of Cambridgeshire remains which are now known as Enaliornis. W.
These Pterodactyl -like creatures are pictures of grace, whether flying with slow steady wingbeats, or standing statue-like as they wait for prey.
South Texas: A series of sightings of a mysterious pterodactyl-like creature in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley in the 1970s has been attributed to an errant giant stork that become lost during a migratory flight and wound up in an unfamiliar ...
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
Convergent evolution is when a trait develops independently in two or more groups of organisms. For example, the wings of Pterodactyls, birds, and bats.
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Scientists classify dinosaurs within a larger group of animals called archosaurians, which also includes crocodiles, alligators and their relatives -- pterosaurians (extinct flying reptiles such as Pterodactyls), birds and thecodonts, ...
 See also: Reptile, Dinosaur, Diver, Lizard, Remora
  
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