Pterosaurs

Pterosaur

Pterosaurs
species	Pterosaur
Skin color	blue with orange striping on head/body and cream underbelly
eye color	red-brown
Diet	Carnivore

In the film, when Buck, Crash and Eddie are riding a Harpactognathus to save Sid, they are chased by another type of pterosaur, Queztalcoatlus. They shake them off first by attacking them with explosive fruit, then by flying them into Lava falls. They are not seen again.

Appearance

The pterosaurs are mostly blue colored with their wings being lighter than their actual bodies. They also have red-orange markings striped along their heads that are mirrored the same way onto their backs as well. In addition, they have a broad wingspan with arms havinga single claw on each, a stubbed short tail and feet that have claws to catch their prey. they also have a long narrow beak with severally multiple sharp teeth inside the mouth (around 68 teeth). Their eyes are red and the outer eye illuminates yellow in shadowed areas; when it's not in a shadowed place it's a paler color.

Biography

A Pterosaur is seen in the middle of the film, where he catches an Archeopteryx thrown by Sid into a cliff.

A flock of hungry pterosaurs find themselves perched on the cliff side near the lava falls, craving something to eat. After some time, the infamous flock notices another pterosaur; a Harpactognathus flying near the falls. as the Quetzalcoatlus takes off, it clearly treats some creatures riding behind it, then turns to the siblings taking off with others planning ahead for a meal. flying high above their prey, you all dive into a line formation and participate in attacking the creature. Few pterosaurs can almost catch one; "before the others are present to ambush, the weasel driving abruptly directs the pterodactyl" rawr

The pterosaurs chase the gang through the canyon, fixed on their prey, the pack of Quetzalcoatlus are determined to get their meal without a fight. Luckily the possums find ahead a patch of plants on the sidewall of the canyon with fruit that buck uses as a stink bomb; the two grab in flight some of the fruit. arranging themselves, they launch one at the leading pterosaur, taking only a single shot to knock it out of the sky. With one fallen, they others behind don't mind and move on without hesitating. Through more of the canyon, they come across a herd of Brachiosauruses feeding on plants. Both Quetzalcoatlus and Harpactognathus swiftly move through and under the large dinosaurs while two of the pterosaurs are taken out by the assault of fruit fired in the process. Finally passing the dinosaurs unharmed: the possums Crash and Eddie erratically shoot more of the ammo at the attackers, taking out two more in a row without missing. however the next pterosaur they fired at dodges the shot.

Heading towards into another part of the canyon with towering rock formations, they twist and turn while the two possums keep on trying to take down their target with continuous difficulty as the pterosaur carefully avoids their shots, depleting their ammo. With only one fruit left, the brothers wait for a clear shot at the one they were aiming at before. Briefly thereafter it charges, boldly soaring rapidly towards the two possums. At the last second they attack it, firing their last fruit directly into it's beak as it screeches, causing the unlucky flying reptile to blow up; bugging out it's eyes and cheeks and nearly immobilizing it with only a portion of it's wings capable of moving. Confused with shock, the over-inflated balloon-like Quetzalcoatlus awkwardly tries to fly, flailing its useless tiny wings as the other remaining surviving pterosaurs glide under it.

Out of the canyon and back at falls the remaining four Quetzalcoatlus extend on chasing after their prey, just as the gang of mammals thought they were safe, one of the pterosaurs that stayed behind surprises them from in front while they were distracted and knocks out roger the harpactogathus out. Careening downward, buck the weasal manages to wake up the pterodactyl in time by CPR and steers him upward in front of the falls. The remaining four pterosaurs perish, not making the steep turn and flying straight into the lava.

Trivia

• Their design are mostly based on both the Quetzalcoatlus and Pterodactylus. Both may differ in size but both look similar to what's seen in the movie.
• For the Pterosaurs; The squawking, scary-sounds they make were reused sounds from the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park and Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park which the Velociraptors sounds would be reused for Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon and the Velociraptors from Jurassic World.
• Both the Quetzalcoatlus and Harpactognathus were identified as pterosaurs in the audio description.

Gallery

The remaining four pterosaurs before flying into the falls

The flock of Quetzalcoatlus approaching