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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings B - Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism. | Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - Pterosaurs: The truth about these flying dinosaurs. | May 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Confererence Series - A mechanical analysis based on pterosaur flight (PDF). | Oct 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science - Pterosaur died with belly full of plantsa fossil first. | Aug 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Pterosaurs: a successful invasion of prehistoric skies (PDF). | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The palaeohistology of pterosaur bone: an overview (PDF). | Jul 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The palaeohistology of pterosaur bone: an overview (PDF). | Jul 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Extinct Animals - Pterosaur. | May 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Pterosaurs. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Prehistoric-wildlife.com - Pterosaurs - An Overview. | Dec 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers. | Sep 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Pterosaurs, the First Flying Dinos, Could Fly as Babies, Says Research. | Mar 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings B - Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism. | Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Text describing the varied diets and ground locomotive styles of pterosaurs added. |
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Mar 30, 2016 | |
| Text added noting the discovery of the oldest pterodactyloid, which was called Kryptodrakon progenitor, in northwestern China. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| New text describing the evolutionary contribution of Darwinopterus modularis added. | Oct 20, 2009 | ||
| Updated for discovery of Lacusovagus, only known chaoyangopterid outside of China. | Mar 19, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 11, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Science - Pterosaurs�Lords of the Ancient Skies. | Jul 15, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Pterosaur. | Jul 15, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Animal Planet - Pterosaur. | Jun 02, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - Introduction to the Pterosauria. | Jun 27, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 27, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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