In both the books and the franchise, pterosaurs are shown to be immediately aggressive and predatory towards humans when not confined, also grasping and lifting in flight humans in both their beaks and their apparently bird of prey-like grasping feet. Also in this film, they are shown diving through the water with great speed after potential food. Based on their physiology and paleontological hypotheses, pterosaurs are often opined to have been fish-eaters (piscivores) and/or carrion-eaters (scavengers), and are unlikely to be capable of preying on large land creatures such as humans nor were likely to dive, instead scooping prey such as fish from the waters surface using their large beaks. Perhaps the pterosaurs gained these unusual characteristics from splicing genes from birds (aggressive, predatory demeanor, load-bearing and grasping ability perhaps from a large bird of prey like an eagle) and underwater diving abilities from a modern diving water bird.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 09:35