Sentences with phrase «biggest pterosaurs»

Pelagornis sandersi was twice the width of a wandering albatross — the largest living bird — but was nevertheless dwarfed by the biggest pterosaurs

The dragon's sheer size dwarfs the biggest pterosaurs, the largest flying animals ever known.

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The specimen is unusual as most pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous were much larger with wingspans of between four and eleven metres (the biggest being as large as a giraffe, with a wingspan of a small plane), whereas this new specimen had a wingspan of only 1.5 metres.

A century of digging found no teeth from giant predatory dinosaurs, a sign that pterosaurs were the biggest and baddest predators on the island.

New fossils now indicate some giant pterosaurs probably did dine on bigger prey, such as dwarf dinosaurs the size of a small horse, 70 million years ago on an island that became modern - day Transylvania.