| Based on widely accepted criteria, pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. |
| I was inhaling ancient molecular effluvia of dimetrodons and plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and tyrannosauruses. |
| It mimics birds, bats or pterodactyls of the dinosaur era, and has membranous wings. |
| Other anatomical features, such as attachment points for powerful neck muscles, support the idea that giant pterodactyls once plowed the waters for food. |
| Earlier, Witmer and others had performed a similar study on fossils of the flying reptiles called pterodactyls, which are not related to Archaeopteryx. |
| Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago. |
