Pterodactyl Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Pterodactyl coloring pages section.
Pterodactylus was the first pterosaur anyone ever described. A fossil from Germany was written up in 1784 and nobody could tell what it was. Some thought it was a sea creature and others a bat or a bird, until scientists worked out that it was a flying reptile.
The name means "winged finger", and it fits. Each wing was a sheet of skin held out by one very long finger, and the whole animal was only about the size of a seagull. It lived about 150 million years ago and probably caught fish and other small animals with its thin pointed teeth.
The main difference between Pterodactyl and Pteranodon is their size and features: Pterodactyls were generally smaller with teeth, while Pteranodons were larger, had long, toothless beaks, and often featured prominent cranial crests.
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