PTEROSAURS: MORE LIZARD THAN BIRD NEW EVIDENCE PRESENTED ON PREHISTORIC CREATURES.(News)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | November 5, 2004| | Copyright

Byline: Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News

Pterosaurs, the prehistoric flying reptiles familiar to all kids and to any adult who remembers The Flintstones, have long been viewed as birdlike creatures.

But new research is overturning those assumptions, revealing that the membrane-winged fliers were in many ways closer to today's lizards, crocodiles and turtles. The word "pterosaur," in fact, means winged lizard.

"It is often supposed that the parents (of pterosaurs) incubated their eggs in a nest and looked after the young until they were old enough ...

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