How to Use pterosaur in a Sentence

pterosaur

noun
  • We’re stuck with it, though, so might as well go with the pterosaur flow.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • We’re stuck with it, though, so might as well go with the pterosaur flow.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The first thing to you'll notice about this pterosaur is its smile.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Many of these pterosaurs weren’t native to the lagoon at all.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And for a baby pterosaur, flying wasn't just a way to get around.
    — Megan Marples and Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 13 June 2019
  • Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies.
    — Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • When pterosaurs thrived, the world would have looked like a very different place.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The now extinct pterosaurs had them, as do bats and birds that are still alive today.
    — National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2017
  • The pelvic bone would have belonged to a pterosaur with a wingspan of more than six feet.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • Other remains at the site hint at what the pterosaurs were eating.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But how did nonlocal pterosaurs end up in the lagoon?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And above their heads flew the early pterosaur Eotephradactylus.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
  • But not everyone thinks the tiny pterosaurs were born air-worthy.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
  • One crew applies a plaster cast to a bone from a pterosaur, a flying reptile, a rare find.
    — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Exhibits include a full-size pterosaur, a wooly mammoth, and touchable wolves and bears.
    — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • This shows that pterosaurs had the ability to live under cold and dark conditions.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 31 May 2023
  • Other young pterosaurs were found at the same location but showed no signs of skeletal trauma.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Coupled with the remnants of many pterosaur meals, this suggests a flock of pterosaurs may have gathered on the cliffs by the coast.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The young hatchlings were likely unable to escape the strong stormy winds, unlike adult pterosaurs.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers learned that birds, pterosaurs and bird-like dinosaurs all lived in the environment at the same time.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Penny saw the pterosaur’s jaw peeking out from the limestone on a tidal platform, right after the tide had gone down.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The arrangement of these pneumatophores can help scientists tell pterosaur species apart.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Flying reptiles called pterosaurs would've also eaten fish from the river.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • More research is needed to understand how this affected the flight of the pterosaur.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Pteranodon was a large flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.
    — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
  • Like many other flying species during that time, this pterosaur had bones that were hollow to aid in flight, Brown said.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Scientists think this kind of pterosaur, with its large jaw and slim neck, preyed on fish, small mammals, and even baby dinosaurs.
    — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The bill clack from a giant pterosaur, one with a nine-foot-long skull, could have been deafening to a wide range of creatures at close range.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The pterosaurs were an order of flying reptiles that went extinct some 66 million years ago.
    — Jason Bittel, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • In contrast, scientists have found only fragments, such as skulls or limbs, of larger adult pterosaurs.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025

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