Test flight: look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a pterosaur?(LIFE/PHYSICAL)

Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication | March 3, 2006| | Copyright

Critical Thinking

* What sorts of things might be hard to learn about a pterosaur from its fossilized remains?

* What might have caused the extinction of the pterosaurs?

National Science Education Standards

* Motion and forces: lift, drag, flight

* Diversity and adaptations of organisms: biological evolution and adaptation

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