Prehistoric Life
Prehistoric
Secrets in Stone
The Earliest Fossils
The Silurian Reef
Trilobites
Fish
The Coal Forests
Early Reptiles and Amphibians
Sea Reptiles
The Teeming Seas
Hunting Dinosaurs
Biggest Dinosaurs
Two-Footed Plant Eaters
Plated and Armoured Dinosaurs
Horned Dinosaurs
The Mammal Age Dawns
Grassland Mammals
The Ice Age
Back Home
Different Heads
You can tell what pterosaurs ate by studying their heads.
(A)Ctenochasma, with its comblike teeth, fed on tiny crustaceans, as modern flamingoes do.
(B) The crested snout of Amhanguera helped it to fish by slicing through the water.
(C) Phobetor pried out shellfish with its forceps bill and crushed them.
(D) Sparrow-sized Anurognathus caught insects.
Related Image
 
Previous:
Back
Book:
Prehistoric Life
Section:
Prehistoric
Chapter:
Flying Reptiles