Sentences with phrase «other pterosaurs»

With throats and jaws much wider than other pterosaurs, they could have swallowed small dinosaurs whole.

These flying reptiles are shown here not surrounded not by other pterosaurs, but birds.

Not exact matches

The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

As with other evidence of smaller pterosaurs, the fossil specimen is fragmentary and poorly preserved: researchers should check collections more carefully for misidentified or ignored pterosaur material, which may enhance our picture of pterosaur diversity and disparity at this time.»

Pterosaurs may have been furry rather than feathery, but they may not have been so very different from birds in other respects.

«On the other hand, pterosaurs seem perfectly capable of standing on their back legs, so a two - legged [bird - style] take - off, whether from a standing pose or running, seems equally plausible — depending on the pterosaur.»

PTEROSAURS may have been furry rather than feathery, but perhaps they weren't so very different from birds in other respects.

The other dinosaur tracks include: a sauropod, or long - necked plant - eater; small theropods, crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex; and pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles that included pterodactyls.

Examples of adaptive radiation can be found in: the Galapagos finches, Australia's marsupials, Hawaii's honeycreepers and fruit flies, Madagascar's carnivores and other mammals, New Zealand's birds and the prehistoric flying pterosaurs.

They also performed a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary history of pterosaurs using the latest data and other anatomical features.

The first pterosaur fossil was discovered in the late Jurassic Solnhofen limestone in 1784, and since then 29 other kinds of pterosaurs have been found in the Solnhofen site.

Pterosaurs («winged lizards») hold a special place in the history of life on Earth: They were the first creatures, other than insects, to successfully populate the skies.