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Wikipedia
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Pterosaur - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - Pterosaurs are often referred to by popular media or the general public as "flying dinosaurs", but dinosaurs are defined as the descendants of the last common ancestor of the Saurischia and Ornithischia, which excludes the pterosaurs. Pterosaurs are nonetheless more closely related to birds ...
MyDinosaurs
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The Top 10 Flying Dinosaurs - MyDinosaurs
July 24, 2025 - MY DINOSAURS CULTURE AND ARTS CO., LTD. ... Flying dinosaurs are not dinosaurs. They are a distinct group of reptiles that share a common ancestor with dinosaurs and became extinct around the same time.
Could dinosaurs fly?
Assuming you don’t mean birds, no dinosaur could fly(that we know off). Quite a few could glide tho. More on reddit.com
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September 8, 2023How do I get Flying dinosaurs out of their Enclosure? : jurassicworldevo
I want to release my flying dinosaurs from their enclosures, but even with High breakouts they never try to breakout, and when they do they all... More on old.reddit.com
The largest flying predator of all time meets the biggest land predator ever. (Animation by Wobbly Works in youtube: link in comments)
This is terrific. Really captures the eeriness of feeling like you're being watched. I also appreciate that the Rex didn't roar before attacking since no animals do that when stalking prey. The quad launch for the Quetzal was also lovely to see. More on reddit.com
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March 17, 2022Is there any flying dinos with good weight? My pteranodon isn’t cutting it atm.
Argentavis. What map are you on? More on reddit.com
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August 13, 2019Videos
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Dinosaurs that Could Fly - YouTube
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TOP 10 Pterosaurs of ALL TIME! - YouTube
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This Flying Dinosaur Was PURE Nightmare Fuel... - YouTube
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How to ride a pterosaur, according to science - BBC REEL - YouTube
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Pterosaurs 101 | National Geographic - YouTube
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Dinosaurs for kids | Learn 40 Flying Dinosaurs Names in English ...
Reddit
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r/Paleontology on Reddit: Were there flying Dinosaurs besides Avians?
October 17, 2023 - Going by consensus, flight seems to have evolved multiple times in pennaraptorans - but outside of this group, which is already very close to birds, no dinosaurs are known to have flown.
Dinosaurland
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The 10 most important types of flying dinosaurs | Dinosaurland
August 14, 2025 - Pteranodon is one of the best known flying dinosaurs. Although it was technically a pterosaur (not a true dinosaur), it dominated the skies of the Late Cretaceous. It had a wingspan of up to 9 meters and a long toothless beak, ideal for fishing ...
Live Science
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Pterodactyl, Pteranodon & Other Flying 'Dinosaurs'
October 13, 2022 - Once airborne, the largest pterosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus northropi) could reach speeds of over 67 mph (108 kph) for a few minutes and then glide at cruising speeds of about 56 mph (90 kph), the study found.
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Flying reptile | Jurassic World Evolution Wiki
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HowStuffWorks
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There Were No Flying Dinosaurs, Only Flying Reptiles | HowStuffWorks
August 2, 2024 - It can be fun to imagine what it ... But wait, that imaginary scenario is technically inaccurate. As it turns out, there were no flying dinosaurs, only flying reptiles....
Only Dinosaurs
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What Are The Flying Dinosaurs Called? Top 10 Types
February 11, 2024 - However, I am sorry to tell you that we have not yet found a dinosaur that can fly, and the earliest Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, but flying reptiles.
Wikipedia
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Quetzalcoatlus - Wikipedia
5 days ago - Quetzalcoatlus (/kɛtsəlkoʊˈætləs/) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, ...
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r/Dinosaurs on Reddit: Could dinosaurs fly?
September 8, 2023 -
I loved dinos as a kid and the interest sparked back as an adult, I remember reading a book that came out around the 90-ties it stated that dinosaurs couldn't fly or swim.
Could it be outdated or mainly referring to animals from the Pterosauria order for simplicity's sake?
Edit: I'm asking about dinosaurs from the Mesozoic period and if the book from from the 1990-ties written for children constrained outdated or simplified research? 😅
I wish I could source it however I have no idea what became of it or who wrote it it existed in my mother's home and disappeared.
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Famously pterosaurs and marine reptiles like plesiosaurs or mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. But birds obviously could fly. Others could probably glide like microraptor or maybe even fly with skin wings like Yi Qi. Also most dinosaurs could probably swim to a certain degree (as in you throw them into water and they won't drown and will move into the direction they want. Actually most animals can, except giraffe. It's probable that some dinosaurs could swim on the surface like ducks (which are actually dinosaurs) or could even dive like penguins (also dinosaurs).
Natural History Museum
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Pterosaurs: The truth about these ‘flying dinosaurs’ | Natural History Museum
In fact, pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. They predate birds by a considerable margin. The first pterosaurs turn up in the fossil record around 215 million years ago, in the Late Triassic.
Bio Explorer
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Flying Dinosaurs Names | Pterodactyl, Quetzalcoatlus, & Dimorphodon
December 7, 2021 - Were there really flying dinosaurs? Technically speaking there have been no scientific records of pre-avian dinosaurs that were capable of flying.
Fossil Guy
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When Dinosaurs Could Fly - The Non-Avian Flying Dinosaurs
Microraptor dinosaur flying models. This is part of figure 1 from Evangelista et al., 2014 showing microraptor gui models in wind tunnel test with various wing positions. The 'tent' posture (figure 1C) appears to be the most viable mode of flight.
Britannica
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Why Are Pterodactyls Not Dinosaurs? | Britannica
October 31, 2025 - No matter how much you like pterodactyls, you’ll want to think twice before telling someone that they’re your favorite dinosaur. Since as early as 1834 the scientific community has considered pterodactyl an outdated informal name for members of the order Pterosauria, which includes all flying reptiles that lived in the Mesozoic Era (252.2 million to 66 million years ago).
Kids Dinosaurs
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Flying Dinosaurs? Facts for Kids
Not really - instead they were flying reptiles. Huge creatures that took to the sky. Find out how big they were, what they ate - facts, pictures and information for kids. Pterosaurs (or 'winged lizards') were a relative of the dinosaur - but were not dinosaurs themselves.
BBC
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Tracks show flying giants walked with dinosaurs
May 3, 2025 - The team said the tracks offered ... fossilised bones alone. ... Pterosaurs were a group of flying reptiles which existed at the same time as the dinosaurs, but were evolutionarily distinct from them....
University of Oxford
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Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how ‘flying dinosaurs’ took flight | Department of Earth Sciences
Dinosaurs did not fly until true birds (which are a group of dinosaurs) evolved.
Amazon
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds: Pickrell, John: 9780231171786: Amazon.com: Books
In Flying Dinosaurs John Pickrell ... with leading paleontologists, Flying Dinosaurs charts how each new discovery confirmed the link between dinosaurs and birds.......
Study.com
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Flying Dinosaurs: Lesson for Kids - Lesson | Study.com
July 29, 2020 - According to paleontologists, scientists who study dinosaurs, dinosaurs did not swim or fly. However, flying reptiles, known as pterosaurs, did. They had wings made of skin and lived throughout the world for about 160 million years, at the same ...
ExtinctAnimals.org
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Flying Dinosaur-like Reptiles – Facts, List, Pictures
July 6, 2023 - Arguably the most famous pterosaur, ... dinosaurs.” A resident of what would eventually become North America, over 1,200 fossilized specimens have been unearthed – most of any prehistoric flying reptile....