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  • noun Plural form of pteranodon.

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Examples

  • Some pteranodons had long, light-weight, bony crests on their heads that may have acted as a rudder or stabilizer when flying, or may have been a sexual characteristic.

    Pteranodon/Pterosaur Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • The buzzing came from two little powergliders, their fabric wings far smaller than the pteranodons, little black man-shape in each one.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Four white pteranodons, floating together on the wind, pickaxe heads tilting, doing the job a bird's tail feathers would do, floating like frigate birds, large as antique fighter jets.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Believed to have existed in the late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era, pteranodons have large, distinctive crests, and a wingspan of around 7 to 9 meters-Canon

    Archive 2010-06-01 Michael James 2010

  • I remembered the pteranodons, up in the sky, though hardly free, and wondered how they'd made that work.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Believed to have existed in the late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era, pteranodons have large, distinctive crests, and a wingspan of around 7 to 9 meters-Canon

    Pteranodon Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010

  • It has imperialist soldiers being taken out by pteranodons.

    Top 10 SF Films of the Decade 2009

  • Though it is a little disappointing that Raquel Welch and her animal skin bikini were anachronistic among pteranodons and tyrannosaurs; she would have added something to the dig diorama.

    The Saurians' Revenge 2009

  •   Though it is a little disappointing that Raquel Welch and her animal skin bikini were anachronistic among pteranodons and tyrannosaurs; she would have added something to the dig diorama.

    The Saurians' Revenge 2009

  • In Kong J., Brody and Naomi make too much noise and wake up the orc-bats what's up with that, anyhow -- what's wrong with pteranodons? and Kong fights them because, well, they're orc-bats.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

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