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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
Why do modern depictions seem to show flying dinosaurs having webbed skin wings instead of feathered wings?
Flying dinosaurs are also called birds, and they're definitely depicted with feathered wings. You may be thinking of pterosaurs which were not dinosaurs but an entirely separate clade of reptiles, branched from common archosaur ancestors, that were the earliest known vertebrates to evolve flight, and did so completely separately from the later flying dinosaurs (aka birds). The structure of their wing is very different from bird wings.
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May 3, 2021Were there any flying Dinosaurs?
Birds are dinosaurs, so ... yes 😉 To my knowledge, the general consensus is that there is no hard line that can be drawn between 'this is a dinosaur' and 'this is a bird', or even when powered flight (as opposed to guided flapping or gliding) actually appeared. Could archaeopteryx fly? Here's a link to a 2018 article in National Geographic which may help answer that one: https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2018/03/archaeopteryx-flight-dinosaurs-birds-paleontology-science More on reddit.com
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August 21, 2019Videos
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The History of The Pterosaur: When Flying Creatures Ruled The World ...
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Dinosaurs that Could Fly - YouTube
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TOP 10 Pterosaurs of ALL TIME! - YouTube
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What We Got Wrong About the Biggest Flying Animal - YouTube
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How Feathered Dinosaurs Accidentally Invented Flight (We Tested It!)
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How to ride a pterosaur, according to science - BBC REEL - YouTube
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.
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.
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 ...
Field Museum
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Meet the Pterosaur Flock - Field Museum
October 26, 2018 - Though you might’ve grown up calling these creatures pterodactyls, that’s the name for just one genus called Pterodactylus. We use “pterosaur” to ptalk—er, talk—about all genera of these extinct flying reptiles, which ranged from sparrow-sized to over 30 feet in wingspan.
American Museum of Natural History
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Meet the Pterosaurs! | AMNH
Millions of years ago, these flying reptiles ruled the skies.
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.
Futurity
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Unlike birds, these dinos evolved to fly in a 'burst' - Futurity
2 days ago - Fabbri says the pterosaur was a force to be reckoned with in dinosaur skies, weighing up to 500 pounds and with a wingspan of up to 30 feet in some species. It is known to be the oldest of three groups of flying vertebrates (in addition to birds ...
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.
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.
RSPB
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Birds: they’re small flying dinosaurs
Did you know that a distant relative of the T. rex is flitting around your bird feeder? Baby pigeons – they look a bit dinosaur-ish don’t they?
Science
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Flying dino had long, feathery tail | Science | AAAS
This latest specimen, found in 125-million-year-old sediments in northeastern China, was about 1.2 meters long and is related to a noted group of flying dinosaurs called Microraptor, which has provided important insights into the evolution of ...
Fandom
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Pterosaur | Jurassic Park Wiki | Fandom
October 29, 2024 - Pterosaurs are the earliest reptiles known to have evolved powered flight. Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the legs to a ...
ScienceAlert
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Bizarre New Species of Flying Reptile Discovered in Fossilized Dinosaur Vomit : ScienceAlert
3 weeks ago - And we might never have known Bakiribu existed, had it not been for an ambitious dinosaur trying to make a meal of it.
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.......
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Flying reptile | Jurassic World Evolution Wiki
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TheTravel
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The Mystery Of Flying Dinosaurs Has Finally Been Solved
January 20, 2025 - They weren’t birds, but pterosaurs—-ancient flying reptiles of the archosaur clade, closely related to dinosaur relatives still alive today like crocodiles—and for over 150 million years, they soared high above the Earth, with the largest ...
Reddit
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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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Assuming you don’t mean birds, no dinosaur could fly(that we know off). Quite a few could glide tho.
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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).