The Myth of the Bat Wing Pterosaur

To paraphrase Dr. Robert T. Bakker in The Dinosaur Heresies: I remember the first time the thought struck me! There’s something very wrong with that toy Pteranodon. It was a Marx toy (Fig. 1) with big, floppy wings that could NOT have been folded away. The wings extended, like bat wings, to the hind limbs, and so had…

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