What did pterosaurs eat?

Pterosaurs feed on insects and small aquatic animals such as fish and shrimp swimming in the water.

Pterosaurs often live in lakes and shallow seas. Some pterosaurs have flippers, which can find small aquatic animals such as flying insects and fish and shrimp swimming in the water from the sky and attack them quickly and accurately.

Most pterosaurs were carnivores, and their prey included fish, aquatic invertebrates and other land animals. Some pterosaurs were saprophytes, others were herbivores.

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Although pterosaurs were found to be covered with a layer of hair a long time ago, these hair structures are often considered to be completely different from bird feathers. A research team from China, Britain, Ireland and Hongkong, China found four feather-like hair structures on a short-tailed pterodactyl for the first time.

They are simple single root, bundle, central axis, lateral branches and feather-like structures. These four feather-like structures have only been found in two kinds of dinosaurs before-the hips of birds and theropods. This achievement advanced the origin of feather-like hair structure by about 70 million years.