There was the swamp of the pterodactyls upon my left; there in front of me was the glade of the iguanodons.
If, as Lord John said, the glade of the iguanodons will remain with us as a dream, then surely the swamp of the pterodactyls will forever be our nightmare.
Your friends the pterodactyls probably lingered longest among the Troglodytes, who, seeing that they were rapidly dying out, concluded to depart to another and a better world.
When the living pterodactyls had disappeared the memory of them was preserved; some new features were added, and the imagination went so far as to endow them with the power of belching forth smoke and flames.
It was thought at one time that Birds differed from Pterodactyls in the absence of teeth; but this only holds good for modern birds.
It would therefore follow--since birds and mammals are warm-blooded--that Pterodactyls were also.
Whether Pterodactyls were cold-blooded or warm-blooded is a question on which the authorities are not agreed.
But the largestPterodactyls hail, like so many other big things, from America.
The large Cambridge Pterodactyls probably pursued a more substantial prey than dragon-flies.
Cuvier thought, from the magnitude of their eyes, that Pterodactyls were of nocturnal habits.
Some of the fragmentary remains from our Cambridge Greensand formation indicate Pterodactyls of enormous size.
Other also fragmentary remains from the chalk of Kent testify to the existence of Pterodactyls during that period fully equal in size.
We know of the fossil remains of one bird at least which had reptilian teeth in its jaw and a long reptilian tail, but which also had a true bird's wing and which certainly flew and held its own among the pterodactyls of the Mesozoic time.
If a man could go back to typical Mesozoic country, he might walk for days and never see or hear such a thing as a bird, though he would see a great abundance of pterodactyls and insects among the fronds and reeds.
Two days later the world's visible supply of Pterodactyls passed into the realms of the annihilated.
But when we compare these reptilian birds with the Pterodactyls and their allies, a vast gap at once becomes apparent.
Disregarding the external clothing, we find the wing in the two groups entirely dissimilar in details of construction, and this dissimilarity extends to the hind limbs as well, so that the Pterodactyls resemble bats rather than birds.
A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth.
There is no warrant for supposing that the flying reptiles or Pterodactyls gave rise to birds, for the two groups are on different lines, and the structure of the wings is entirely different.
The Pterodactyls varied from the size of sparrows to a wing-span of fifteen feet--the largest flying creatures.
The extinct Flying Dragons or Pterodactyls had their golden age in the Cretaceous era, after which they disappeared, leaving no descendants.
Pterodactyls were something like crocodiles and something like birds--I believe they were very good grilled.
I doubt it, because you write about women as though they were pterodactyls or some other extinct animal, which you had never seen, but had read a lot about.
I had portrayed Gillian Hardress pretty well in Afield; but by and large, I had always written about women as though they were "pterodactyls or some other extinct animal, which you had never seen, but had read a lot about.
The fish-like saurians and flying pterodactyls of the secondary period have come into existence and gone out of it gracefully again.
Pterodactyls were something like crocodiles and something like birds - I believe they were very good grilled.
In bats and in pterodactyls also the sternum is produced into a carina along the median line.
A genus of pterodactylsin which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.
In the Mesozoic, in addition to the great Dinosaurs and Pterodactyls of the land, it had at least fifty or sixty species of aquatic reptiles, besides many turtles.
I think it a misfortune for a young woman to have much to say to children about Pterodactyls under their bed--is that the name?
I tell the children stories of how the Mastodon once virtually lived in our stable, and that millions of years ago there were Pterodactyls under their bed.
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