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To: ETL

Mosasaur ping! About time the marine reptiles of the Mesozoic get some air time. :)


2 posted on 06/12/2015 1:44:55 PM PDT by C19fan
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I average about one theater movie a year. My daughters are taking me to see this one on Fathers Day.
3 posted on 06/12/2015 1:49:43 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: C19fan

Yes. Most people think all of the large reptiles back then were dinosaurs. Besides dinos there were marine reptiles and flying reptiles.

“Pterodactyl is the common term for the winged reptiles properly called pterosaurs, which belong to the taxonomic order Pterosauria. Scientists typically avoid using the term and concentrate on individual genera, such as Pterodactylus and Pteranodon.

There are at least 130 valid pterosaur genera, according to David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. They were widespread and lived in numerous locations across the globe, from China to Germany to the Americas.

Pterosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic period and roamed the skies until the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago), according to an article published in 2008 in the German scientific journal Zitteliana. Pterosaurs lived among the dinosaurs and became extinct around the same time, but they were not dinosaurs. Rather, pterosaurs were flying reptiles.”

http://www.livescience.com/24071-pterodactyl-pteranodon-flying-dinosaurs.html


4 posted on 06/12/2015 1:50:13 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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But, did they stay on the surface long enough for a mosquito to get a bite? That is where they got the DNA for the original dinosaurs.


32 posted on 06/12/2015 5:03:14 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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