Giant Pterosaurs – The Creatures That Should Have Been Too Big to Fly

Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles that died out at the end of the Cretaceous period (between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago). They were the earliest flying vertebrates, with the earliest pterosaurs dating back to 230 million years ago.


Studying extinct animals can raise a lot of interesting questions for scientists. For example, without the ability to truly see extinct creatures in action, scientists have to rely on computerized models to determine how they walked, ran, flew, and did any number of other biomechanical motions. For some animals, determining

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