Wordie: Pterodactyl: Comments

Comment by bilby, 6 days ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:55:54 +0000

An off-road Guzzladon, maybe? How about a list of Prehistoric SUV Names instead?

Comment by pterodactyl, 6 days ago

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:27:03 +0000

I've known since about age 5 -- my dinosaur phase -- that pterodactyls are not dinosaurs. (And being 5, I would go around telling this to everyone. Five-year-olds are masters of the non sequitur).

What I didn't find out until recently is that, while some pterosaurs were quite large, pterodactylus was fairly small.

Quoting Wikipedia: "Pterodactylus was a relatively small pterosaur genus, with adult wingspans ranging from 50 centimeters (1.5 ft) in P. kochi to 2.4 meters (8 ft) in P. grandis."

I feel diminished. I feel inadequate. I feel like I need to go out and buy a huge prehistoric SUV to compensate.

Comment by chained_bear, 9 days ago

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:27:38 +0000

"Pterodactyls or pterodactyloids (meaning "winged finger") were flying, prehistoric reptiles. They were a subgroup of pterosaurs and were not dinosaurs." (As I'm sure ptero would tell us.) (enchantedlearning.com)