Prehistoric air travel

To travel 10,000 miles through the air, you have to take an airplane. Or two. Maybe three. (It would be like flying from New York to Sydney.) Birds can alsoe do it — though they usually need at least one layover on the wayBut for a certain flying reptile that lived 70 million years ago, 10,000 miles probably wasn’t too far to fly in one trip. Ther was four giant types of these beasts, called pterosaurs( they were living at the same time that dinosaurs  and they were ten times biger)  which might have been able to go the distance in a single flight. Scientists who study fossils say these beasts    flew through the air on 30-foot-long wings and that the biggest type of these creatures weighed about 5500 pounds, which is more than an ostrich.  In other words, if you take a time machine back at least 65 million years and want to see a pterosaur, you probably won’t have much trouble. Just look for the nearest giant, flying reptile with a wingspan as wide as a backyard swimming pool. So see you  in the past!

                                                                                                                     from helene le roux

                                                                                                                     did the 10/27/2010