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Description: | Pterodactyls were pterosaurs, flying reptiles that were alive at the same time as the dinosaurs (although they were not actually dinosaurs themselves). Their wings were made of skin which was stretched along one extremely long finger. There were lots of different kinds. Some were no larger than pigeons, whilst others had a wing span the size of a small aeroplane. The earlier Pterosaurs had tails. Their bones were partially hollow in order to keep their weight down. It is thought that most Pterosaurs were covered in fur. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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