Short-Tailed Pterodactyl Watching Lagoon Coloring Page

🎓 Word of the Day

Arboreal

Relating to trees! It describes animals (or sometimes even rocks!) that live in or are often found in trees.

🧠 Did You Know?

• • Unlike birds, pterodactyls had wings made of skin and muscle stretching from their long fingers to their ankles.
• • Some pterodactyls were enormous, with wingspans of up to 36 feet – that's bigger than some small airplanes!
• • Scientists believe they were warm-blooded, which helped them fly and hunt for food, just like birds and mammals.

💬 Conversation Corner

• ? If you could have wings like a pterodactyl for a day, where would you fly and?
• ? Looking at the lagoon, what other creatures do you imagine might have lived?
• ? How do you think the world has changed since the time of the pterodactyls?