And to add to James’s answer, the wings must have been quite big. It’s not so much about heaviness, it’s the shape of the body that give the ability to fly.
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scientists claim that pterodactyls have problem with flying.
now it seems pterodactyls, the terror of the prehistoric skies, may have struggled to get off the ground.
The new research claims that the ancient reptiles, which could grow to the size of small aeroplanes, were too heavy to fly – even with their massive wings.
The problem, according to a leading scientist, is that they could not flap fast enough to create the thrust to keep their enormous bulk airborne.
The ‘dinosaur’ popularly known as a pterodactyl is actually called a reptile called a pterosaur, which is Greek for flying lizard.
It existed alongside the dinosaurs between 251 and 65 million years ago, and were thought to be the biggest creatures to ever take to the air.
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Ahmed
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