"Let's just ruin all the movies about pterosaurs: they could soar like airplanes, but they couldn't hover like hummingbirds. They couldn't carry things in their feet either, they couldn't perch on tree branches like birds, they didn't look like "bird-monsters", and they didn't look like "lizard-bats". They didn't have four-fingered wings like bats; their wings were based on an elongated pinky finger. The only thing bat-like about them was the way they walked; on all fours. So what are the possibilities for fluffy pterosaurs? We know they were a very diverse and almost certainly colorful group. They looked like a wide range of things, from fluttering bats to darting falcons. Some had powerful shell-crushing jaws and some had ridiculous crests, and some were quite huge. For decades, we were told that Pteranodon was the biggest animal that ever flew, then they discovered Ornithocheirus, then Quetzalcoatlus, then Hatzegopteryx (an apex predator)... These were capable killers of even human-sized prey, with a skull larger than that of even the biggest carnosaurs."
— Pterosaurs

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Reptiles
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
English (Original)

Sources

Aron Ra, "Pterosaurs are Terrible Lizards", Youtube (December 3, 2013)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pterosaurs

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. Reptiles
  4. /
  5. Quote by Pterosaurs

Categories

Reptiles

Pterosaurs

3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Pterosaurs →

Related Quotes

"Most people think of pterosaurs as "flying dinosaurs". When I was a boy, I remember the other kids called them "dinos…"
— Pterosaurs
Reptiles
"In their evolution, we see that the earliest pterosaurs were small, and yet still unecessarily heavy and clumsy, both…"
— Pterosaurs
Reptiles
"Un piccolo di caimano nato prematuro pesa tre chili e otto."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"In the middle of the lake you don't make fun of the caiman."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"Durante la stagione delle piogge il caimano si stufa."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"È rarissimo vedere un caimano che spia i compagni mentre fanno il bagno."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"La femmina del caimano, che per brevità chiameremo caimana, se provocata, suda."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"Avendo tempo, il caimano resisterebbe anche di più sott’acqua."
— Caiman
Reptiles
"Wilt thou draw out the crocodile with a hook and with a cord wilt thou press down his tongue? 2 Wilt thou put a rope …"
— Crocodile
Reptiles
"Anche se una piroga resta a lungo nel fiume non diventerà mai un coccodrillo."
— Crocodile
Reptiles
HomePopularAdd Quote
Add Quote
HomePopularWorksQuotesAuthorsCATEGORIES
RECENTLY ADDED

Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.

- Gopal Mukund Huddar

CATEGORIES
Novelists From The United States29258Thema28471Academics From The United States273392000s American Films18689Person17672