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Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to fly. They appeared in the Late Triassic and died out 66 million years ago. Their wing was a membrane of skin stretched along a single very long finger. They were not dinosaurs. Some Cretaceous giants spanned about ten metres.
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Nesov
Its neck could not turn at all and could only bend a little vertically. Nesov therefore thought it scooped prey from the water's surface like the modern skimmer, without diving.
Photo: Alexander Averianov, Gareth Dyke, Igor Danilov, Pavel Skutschas (CC BY 3.0)
Lü & Ji
A nearly complete but crushed skeleton, with a skull 235 mm long. It was low and elongated, with a rounded tip. The very large front teeth formed a mesh of sharp points at the front of the mouth.
Photo: Dlyj0604 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Embrik Strand
A 'bent jaw': this pterosaur owes its name to its curved lower jaw. Its first name already belonged to an African bug, as a Norwegian entomologist noticed in the 1920s. Its best fossils come from the Holzmaden shale of Germany.
Photo: ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia (Public domain)
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