Fort Morgan Public Library

One hundred million years ago, the skies were filled with enormous flying reptiles. With wings spans up to nearly forty feet, pterosaurs were the dominant life form on earth. The relationship of these giants of the air to dinosaurs and to other reptiles, their varied appearance and lifestyles, their evolution and extinction, the fossil discoveries that scientists are continually making throughout the world--all are depicted in this beautifully illustrated,...

"Set off on an imaginary thrill-ride to a hidden island of ancient winged terrors. You will need nerves of steel and quick reactions to avoid the snapping jaws of pteranodons and dino-birds" -- Cover verso.

Introduces the various species of flying reptiles, probably covered with fur or long hair, possibly warm-blooded, and known only from fossil evidence, which inhabited the earth in the age of dinosaurs.

Describes flying dinosaurs in simple text and colorful pictures.

Upon finding a special stone, a child imagines the life of a pterosaur, the ancient flying reptile that lived, died, and was fossilized into that stone. Includes facts about fossils and how they are formed.

When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.