What I Learnt Today : Pterodactyl was not only the flying dinosaur, There were many

royalmacro (72) in wilt • 8 years ago (edited)

What I Learnt Today : Pterodactyl was not only the flying dinosaur, There were many

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We are all familiar to Pterodactyl, the flying dinosaur. But, actually there existed so many flying dinosaurs. The common name of all this “flying dinosaurs” is Pterosaurs. There are about 130 genus of Pterosaurs existed in the jurassic period. Here I listed some of them —

1. Pterodactyl

The Pterodactyls had a couple of very wide wings up to 40 feet long. But, these wings are not similar to modern bird’s wings. There were no feathers , their wings were made of a leathery substance. They lived near the sea in the cave & trees. They ate sea fish, large insects & other small dinosaurs. We found their fossils in Europe, North America, Australia, and Africa.

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Pterodactyl
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Pterodactyl Fossil
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2. Petinosaurus

Petinosaurus wings were formed by membranes of skin and other soft tissues. And also there were no feathers on their wings. These types of flying dinosaurs are small in size than Pterodactyl. Food habit is the same as Pterodactyl. They lived in the trees.

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3. Pteranodon

Pteranodon mens toothless wing. Yes, this type of flying dinosaur had no teeth. Length of the wings was 6 metre. They had also featherless wings. They lived in the caves & trees. Their food habit is the same as Pterodactyl. Their fossils were found in North America & Europe.

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Pteranodon
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Pteranodon fossil
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4. Quetzalcoatlus

The wings length of Quetzalcoatlus was near 36 feet. They had also featherless leather wings. They were toothless dinosaurs. Their food habit is the same as Pterodactyl.

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Quetzalcoatlus
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Quetzalcoatlus fossil
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5. Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx had feathers on their wings. They lived in the bushes & trees. They ate small insects & fish.

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Archaeopteryx
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Archaeopteryx fossil
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6. Avisaurus

Avisaurus was very similar to Archaeopteryx in size, nature & habit. Their wing length was up to 3 metre. Their food habit was similar to Archaeopteryx.

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Avisaurus fossil
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7. Confuciusornis

The size of Confuciusornis was very small like a modern crow. Their wings length was about 2 feet long. They had also feathers on their wings. They had also a long tail. Their diet was similar to modern crows.

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Confuciusornis
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Confuciusornis fossil
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8. Haopterus

Haopterus was very similar to Pterodactyl. The length of their wings was near 30 feet long. They lived in the caves & trees near the sea shore. They ate sea fishes & small dinosaurs.

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Haopterus fossil
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9. Microraptor

Microraptor was small in size. They had four wings. The length of their wings was about 2.5 feet. They had also feathers on their wings. Their food habit is similar to Avisaurus.

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Microraptor
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Microraptor fossil
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10. Rahonavis

Rahonavis was very similar to Microraptor in size, shape, nature & habit. Their wing was covered with long feathers & length of their wings was near to 2 feet. Their food habit was also same as Microraptor.

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Rahonavis
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Rahonavis fossil
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everittdmickey (73) · 8 years ago

and they existed for over 200 million years.
man has been on earth only about one million years.

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago

thanks for give a bit info

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lemouth (72) · 8 years ago

That reminds me my childhood where I was collecting dinosaur cards :)

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norbu (70) · 8 years ago

Ditto! And I miss those days! 😊

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago (edited)

I first bought some plastic dinosaur models after my madhyamik exam....

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jlufer (75) · 8 years ago

Bravo! Excellent post my friend @royalmacro, very interesting, valuable information congratulations and grace to share

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago

thanks @jlufer :)

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norbu (70) · 8 years ago

Really interesting, thanks,

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago

thank you @norbu :)

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surpassinggoogle (76) · 8 years ago

Nice to see people using this tag, I am a believer in it too. I created a tag too called #steemitisbeautiful and a post in it saying what it is about. Any type of post that is on steemit qualifies to be in it. I mean, there should be at least one general hashtag that one can use without getting flagged for inappropriate tagging. There are times that you just stuck and want to maximize your 5 tags and only came up with 4 and you can't think of another tag then you decide to put in #steemit as one may see it a general tag. Well, I thought so till I started getting flagged. And one flag is enough to do damage even if one hundred people liked or upvotes your work. Thus, I made (steemitisbeautiful) to build on steemit standing from the world on the internet and emanating beauty instead, love overall, forgiveness . This is attainable! Incase, you don't know one more tag to use, you can just slot in hashtag (steemitisbeautiful)

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago

thanks I'll use #steemitisbeautiful tag for my next posting

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norbu (70) · 8 years ago (edited)

I only use the #wilt tag too after I was accused of using known tags as a bait for whale votes, like the whales were fishes. Anyway why should we use a tag popular on a competing website, which is being castigated for censorship, when we can have our own tags on steemit? I shall use #steemitisbeautiful henceforth!

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royalmacro (72) · 8 years ago

I used previously some unique tags such as -
#durga-puja #kali-puja #kolkata #bengali etc.

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solarguy (68) · 8 years ago

if you had to be any of the known dinosaurs which would you be?

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mattclarke (68) · 8 years ago (edited)

AKA kongamato, ropen or thunderbird.

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