stackyFACTSYou bought the toy as a kid and called it a dinosaur, but science disagrees. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs but evolved on a completely separate branch of the family tree. They are essentially just terrifying, oversized evolutionary cousins crashing the dinosaur party.
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