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pterodactyl
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pter·o·dac·tyl
/ ˌterəˈdaktəl/
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a pterosaur (Pterodactylus and other genera, family Pterodactylidae) of the late Jurassic period, with a long slender head and neck and a very short tail.
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(in general use) any pterosaur.
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CUDDLY PTERODACTYLS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/26/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...revisionist paleontologists believe pterodactyls were narrow-winged, aerodynamic...Bakker has even imagined a pterodactyl pigmented pink, like a flamingo...water for its food. A pink pterodactyl! Pterodactyls in snow-white flocks! Will...
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Pterodactyl had space-age technology inside prehistoric skull.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 10/30/2003; 700+ words
; ...scans of the two pterodactyl skulls to study...mostly on how pterodactyls performing aerial...he said, that pterodactyls used the flocculus...said that as a pterodactyl soared through...instructions back to the pterodactyl's wing through...closely related, pterodactyls were one of ...
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Parenthood in Pterodactyls: New Research Shows Extinct Flying Reptiles Cared for Their Young After Birth.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 11/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...and parental care of pterodactyls. Contrary to popular...year-old embryonic pterodactyl (identified as of...containing the preserved pterodactyl skeleton. "The egg...all of the same pterodactyl species," Chiappe...This suggests that pterodactyls didn t necessarily...
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Steel: ; Pterodactyl
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 3/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; FOR THE DAILY MAIL W herever Steel Pterodactyl plays, you're likely to see a dance...favorite bands' names. While Steel Pterodactyl has yet to become a household name...Phillip McLaughlin, everything from Steel Pterodactyl's name to its choice of musical styles...
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Pterodactyls found to come from eggs
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/6/2005; 370 words
; ...scientists worldwide whether pterodactyls, Mesozoic reptiles...evidence of the origin of pterodactyls. Chinese archaeologists...discovered a fossilized pterodactyl egg in Yixian County...oviparous nature of pterodactyls. The significance...
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Tangled `Pterodactyls' Imaginative farce gets lost in the clutter
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/28/1994; ; 700+ words
; PTERODACTYLS Play in two acts by Nicky...of Nicky Silver's "Pterodactyls," presented by the Huntington...backyard (where Todd digs up pterodactyl bones to reconstruct in...if not exhaustive, "Pterodactyls" has major dramatic problems...
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Chinese fossil reveals smallest pterodactyl
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 2/12/2008; 505 words
; ...identified a tiny, toothless pterodactyl from a well-preserved Chinese...millimetres, making it the smallest pterodactyl ever found. According to a report...Discovery News, this tree-dwelling pterodactyl lived about 120125 million years...
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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane ... it's a pterodactyl. (model being designed)
Magazine article from: Popular Science; 3/1/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...in awkward circles, the prehistoric pterodactyl slowly takes on the grace of an airborne...took millions of years to create the pterodactyl, one of a family of pterosaurs ranging...challenge is especially difficult with the pterodactyl; it doesn't even have a tail to help...
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'Pterodactyls': Dank Skeleton In the Closet
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; "Pterodactyls," which opened Saturday at the Source...sorrow, shame and one-liners. "Pterodactyls" is soggy, though--a damp blast...body rather than his mother's. "Pterodactyls" is dispiritingly familiar, from...
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Pterodactyls. (play by Nicky Silver)(includes complete script and interview of author) (Playscript)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Raised in Captivity. About the Play Pterodactyls received a workshop production at Vineyard...past two. Like the Duncan family in Pterodactyls, he grew up in Philadelphia with his...to be honest. One might glean from Pterodactyls that you have a pretty bleak world...
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pterodactyl
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
pterodactyl Any of several species of small pterosaur...in Jurassic and Cretaceous times. Pterodactyls were almost tail-less, with large...keel. It is therefore believed that pterodactyls were gliders, incapable of sustained...
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pterodactyls
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
pterodactyls See PTEROSAURIA .
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Pterosauria
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
...Pterosauria An extinct order of flying reptiles – the pterodactyls – that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (180–70 million years ago). Pterodactyls had beaked jaws and an elongated fourth finger that supported...
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Newton, Edwin Tulley
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...probably those on the brain of the Jurassic flying reptile, the pterodactyl (1888), and on the rreptilian remains from the Permotriassic...179 (1888), 503 – 537; “ Notes on Pterodactyls ” , in Proceedings of the Geologists ’...
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Cherry, Elizabeth
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...appearances as Maria, The Curse, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; as Madeline Devo, Escape from Pterodactyl Island, St. Paul's Church; as Diana, Green Gables, York Theatre Company; and as the second narrator, Ministry of...
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