Tag: pterosaurs

(Copyright) by Jerry Bergman (Powder Springs, Georgia)  Among the strangest animals ever createdThere are no viable examples in the fossil record of ‘preflight’ animals (before flight was perfected) leading up to the pterosaurs—or any other flying creature for that matter. Pterosaurs (‘winged lizards’) are some of the strangest animals God ever created. They are classified as reptiles but looked more like birds. They had beaks—some of the weirdest-looking in the animal kingdom. Like other reptiles, many had sharp-pointed teeth and comparatively long tails. Unlike most reptiles, however, many believe they were warm-blooded, a feature shared with birds and mammals. And the epidermal scales characteristic of […]