Alexander Gilkes

I was given a life-size iron sculpture of a heron by a godparent. It was so poorly made, that it looked more like a pterodactyl and was so unbalanced that it would continue to topple over and create huge divots in my bedroom floor with its sharp beak.

British Businessman

Boris Johnson

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

British Politician

Remember, pterodactyls are often confused with birds, but they're actually reptiles.

Not Birds

Pterodactyls no longer exist; refer to them as ancient or prehistoric.

Extinct Creature

Pterodactyls can symbolize something old-fashioned or outdated.

Cultural Symbol

 Pterosaur wings ran along their sides from shoulder to ankle, and each wing was held up and supported by an elongated digit. The first pterosaur ever discovered was actually named for this characteristic. Pterodactyl is a combination of the Greek words

Pterosaurs 101 PIPE...

 flight is an inherently difficult thing flight within vertebrates has only involved three times once in the bat once in the bird and once in the pterodactyls and so with flight it's very metabolically costly bat have

The secret of the bat...

 Now flight is an inherently difficult thing. Flight within vertebrates has only evolved three once in the bats, once in the birds, and once in the pterodactyls. And so with flight, it's very metabolically costly.