How To Use Pterodactyl In A Sentence
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The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
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With their proportionally short wings, long legs with robust femora, and large, robust feet (Bennett 2001), azhdarchids were likely to have been even better suited for terrestrial foraging than most other pterodactyloids.
Archive 2006-04-01
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Which is the nearest fossil relative of a chicken: pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus or woolly mammoth?
Times, Sunday Times
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Side note, the music played when Toth-Amon floats off the dark tower balcony and hand-animates into that rad mist-pterodactyl is the some of the best music out of both Conans.
Stephen Lang Offered Conan Villain Role | /Film
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Now I'll bet there isn't a man here who can spell "pterodactyl," not even the prisoner at the bar.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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I decided on a pterodactyl, a dinosaur with a distinct advantage over most dinosaurs: the ability to fly like an eagle.
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In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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So do leaders at Project Creation in Mount Juliet, Tenn., who would need to raise about $1 million to assemble 30 to 50 pterodactyl and brachiosaur replicas to mingle with live chickens and goats.
Studio execs: dumb white men
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No matter a persons' level of scientific knowledge most can identify a picture of a flying reptile as a "pterodactyl".
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Examples include walking through a house with an endless corridor in the basement, a man in a suit and hat that stalks you, a flying pterodactyl, a giant face jutting from the wall, being swallowed by the sun, and so much more.
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The flying membranes of bats and of pterodactyls were probably used in gliding before they were of any use in flapping flight, and, as Spurway has pointed out, small membranes along the sides of the body are found in some arboreal mammals which do not even glide, and these folds of skin render such animals more difficult to see by eliminating the shadows they would otherwise cause.
A Mystery for the Ages
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The best preserved impressions of patagium in Pterodactylus show the membrane connected to the thigh about two-thirds of the distance along the femur.
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Similarly, there's no creationist reason why the pterodactyls shouldn't have a fur-like covering - yet no evolutionist believes that pterodactyls evolved into mammals.
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What has affected global markets is that when China flew into formation it was adding a demographic pterodactyl to the flying geese.
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A mere explanation that a pterodactyl was a kind of flying reptile belonging to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods was insufficient.
DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL
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I'd like to hear him try in private, and when he got through trying to spell "pterodactyl" you wouldn't know whether it was a fish or a beast or a bird, and whether it flew on its legs or walked with its wings.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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I was inhaling ancient molecular effluvia of dimetrodons and plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and tyrannosauruses.
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They first had to go through the hangar-high hall with the crouching pterodactyl and its massive, hulking neighbour.
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It mimics birds, bats or pterodactyls of the dinosaur era, and has membranous wings.
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It mimics birds, bats or pterodactyls of the dinosaur era, and has membranous wings.
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``Oh go spell `pterodactyl,'' said Nutbeem, hauling on his jacket and tam-o'-shanter, crashing out the door.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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``Oh go spell ` pterodactyl ,'' said Nutbeem, hauling on his jacket and tam-o'-shanter, crashing out the door.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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``Oh go spell `pterodactyl,'' said Nutbeem, hauling on his jacket and tam-o'-shanter, crashing out the door.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Mr. Silver is the author of acid-dripping comedies like "Pterodactyls" and "Raised in Captivity" about families that make the term dysfunctional sound positively benign.
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On this lush world, great beasts roam the jungles and pterodactyl-like creatures soar through the sky.
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Just then, like some silent, colorful, prehistoric pterodactyl, a paraglider floated into view and soared twenty feet directly over my head.
Live and Let Love
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It’s essentially the same as my version, but instead of having our heroes Basil and Louise in little, white boxes, they’re riding the pterodactyl, which is exactly where they should be.
Attack of the Volcano Monkeys
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You see, there's this sort of dragonlike flying reptile that used to exist, called a pterodactyl, and this is a flying moon, so -
Yon Ill Wind
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And while a ninja triceratops is hard to imagine working out well, a ninja oviraptor or a ninja pterodactyl could be quite deadly.
Movements and Reprehensibility « Whatever
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Birds, close cousins of pterodactyls, are believed to have evolved from theropod dinosaurs about 150 million years ago.
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But then, we can detect pterodactyls and quarks only indirectly too.
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Comments on Weinberger article Taxonomies out of the box « Where Rasta Meets Pasta
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It now seems that nearly all of the characters proposed initially to distinguish Tupuxuara from other pterodactyloid pterosaurs are problematic in not being unique to the genus, but in fact Tupuxuara is clearly diagnosable, being unique in having a sort of deep premaxillary crest in which the dorsal margin extends subparallel to the dorsal margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra (Martill & Naish 2006, p. 931).
Archive 2006-11-01
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Finally, Bennett (2001) noted that the femora and metatarsal V of Quetzalcoatlus were robust relative to those of other pterodactyloids, and that its feet were larger and more robust than those of ornithocheiroids.
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Based on widely accepted criteria, pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.
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This is the story of violence, betrayal, love, and survival told in a series of monosyllabic guttural sounds, set against the backdrop of volcanic eruptions and pterodactyls.
