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Photo: British Museum (Xatural History). 



FOSSIL OF A PTERODACTYL OR EXTINCT FLYING DRAGON 



The wing is made of a web of skin extended on the enor- 

 mously elongated outermost finger. The long tail served for 

 balancing and steering. The Pterodactyls varied from the 

 size of sparrows to a wing-span of fifteen feet the largest flying 

 creatures. 





From Knipe's " Xebtila to 



PARIASAURUS: AN EXTINCT VEGETARIAN TRIASSIC REPTILE 

 Total length about 9 feet. (Remains found in Cape Colony, South Africa.) 



