Pterodactyls liked to eat fish, and hunted much like
the swooping fish-eating large birds of today
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Pterodactyls liked to eat fish, and hunted much like
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The Pterodactyl was a flying reptile of the order Pterosauria, common in the Mesozoic era.
The flying apparatus of the pterodactyl comprised a membranous wing stretched between the fourth finger of the hand and the side of the body. There is no fossil evidence of either scales or feathers.
The fifth finger was degenerate, and the first three were free of the wing. The earlier varieties had fully toothed jaws and long tails, while in the later forms the tail was a stump, the teeth were lacking, and the jaws were modified into a beak.
About 29 kinds of pterosaurs have been found, sizes ranging from that of a sparrow to that of a dragonlike creature with a wingspread of more than 20 ft (6.1 m).
The pterodactyl is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia.