Flying Monsters

Imagine outrunning a superfast dinosaur, just to be plucked from the ground by a pterosaur in flight. That’s probably just what happened to many small prey in the age of the dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were all sizes, from creatures as small as songbirds to the biggest flyer ever known, Quetzalcoatlus. It had a wingspan of 36 feet (11 m)! Readers will get to know much more about various kinds of pterosaurs in this brilliantly illustrated book. A timeline, world map, sidebars, and diagrams further enhance the intriguing text.