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special facts about pterodactyl plsss

Answer 1

1.There's No Such Thing as a "Pterodactyl":It's unclear at what point "pterodactyl" became the pop-culture synonym for pterosaurs in general, and for Pterodactylus and Pteranodon in particular, but the fact remains that this is the word most people (and Hollywood screenwriters) prefer to use. Working paleontologists never refer to "pterodactyls," instead of focusing on individual pterosaur genera, of which there were literally hundreds (and woe to any scientist who confuses Pteranodon with Pterodactylus!) 

2.Neither Pterodactylus nor Pteranodon Had Feathers:Despite what some people still think, modern birds didn't descend from pterosaurs like Pterodactylus and Pteranodon, but from the small, two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, many of which were covered with feathers. As far as we know, Pterodacylus and Pteranodon were strictly reptilian in appearance, though it now seems that some odd pterosaur genera (like the late Jurassic Sordes) sported hair-like growths. 

3.Pterodactylus Was the First Pterosaur Ever Discovered:The "type fossil" of Pterodactylus was discovered in Germany in the late 18th century, well before scientists had a firm understanding of pterosaurs, dinosaurs, or (for that matter) the theory of evolution, which was only formulated decades later. Some early naturalists even mistakenly believed (though not after 1830 or so) that Pterodactylus was a kind of bizarre, ocean-dwelling amphibian that used its wings as flippers! As for Pteranodon, its type fossil was discovered in Kansas in 1870, by the famous American paleontologist ​Othniel C. Marsh. 

4.Neither Pterodactylus Nor Pteranodon Were the Biggest Pterosaurs:A lot of the buzz originally generated by the discovery of Pteranodon and Pterodactylus has been co-opted by the truly gigantic Quetzalcoatlus, a late Cretaceous pterosaur with a wingspan of 35 to 40 feet (about the size of a small plane). Fittingly, Quetzalcoatlus was named after Quetzalcoatl, the flying, feathered god of the Aztecs. (By the way, Quetzalcoatlus may itself one day be supplanted in the record books by Hatzegopteryx, a comparably sized pterosaur represented by frustratingly fragmentary fossil remains!)