Dsungaripteroids; flying wild boars?

Adam Khor

The idea that the bizarre, robust-jawed pterosaurs known as Dsungaripteroids may have been aggressive omnivores- kind of like flying wild boars- and capable of taking on prey as large as themselves as well as scavenging and eating pretty much everything they could find, is gaining popularity recently over the more parsimonious classic view; that they were specialized shellfish eaters that used their powerful jaws to crack their victim's shells.

http://tobiranomokoue.weebly.com/dsungaripteroidea.html

If it was true, it would add to the increasing diversity of lifestyles known for pterosaurs, from the ground-based predatory azhdarchids, to the marine long-distance flying fish-eaters like Pteranodon, filter feeders like Pterodaustro, flesh eaters like Gwawinapterus, and even perhaps fruit eaters (Tapejarids?).

Galvasean

Long gone are the days when all pterosaurs were assumed to have flung themselves off cliffs and caught fish.

dlofnep

Galvasean wrote: »

Long gone are the days when all pterosaurs were assumed to have flung themselves off cliffs and caught fish.

Or get nudged off by their mothers