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Pterosaurs, the flying cousins of the dinosaurs, reached immense sizes in the late Cretaceous period (100-66 million years ago), some species with wingspans of perhaps more than ten metres.
Pterosaurs were the fighter jets of the prehistoric ages they lived in – with wingspans reaching 33 feet or more, massive heads and huge tooth-lined jaws, they were the terror of the Mesozoic Era from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period. With that kind of size, they should have had nothing. Read more »