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  • noun Plural form of pterosaur.

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Examples

  • First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • This indicates that broad-chord patagia are both widely distributed within pterosaurs, and the norm for the group.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • I am particularly intrigued by the evidence of indeterminate growth in pterosaurs and the fact that they actually grew significantly after 'fledging' (or whatever the correct word is to describe the equivalent for pterosaurs!).

    Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006

  • The pterosaurs are the older of the two groups, appearing in the late Triassic.

    Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • A functional analysis of flying and walking in pterosaurs.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Large marine reptiles, like the mosasaurs and the plesiosaurs, the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, giant snail-like ammonites and many species of marine plankton, were also were also obliterated.

    yewknee.com 2010

  • The flying creatures are called pterosaurs (the "p" is silent).

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2009

  • The flying creatures are called pterosaurs (the "p" is silent).

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2009

  • Scientists have long assumed that pterodactyls, also called pterosaurs, flew just like birds, and launched themselves using their hind legs.

    Scientific American 2009

  • If man had lived 65 million years ago, here's how he would have measured up to two of the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs which, unlike birds, used four legs to launch themselves into flight, according to new research.

    Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense 2009

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