Describes the bodies, diets, habitats, life cycle, and extinction of the giant winged animals known as pterosaurs, provides details on pterosaur fossils found around the world, and includes color illustrations and a list of museums that display pterosaur fossils.

Includes index.

Wing lizards -- The age of reptiles -- The first pterosaurs -- The "wing fingers" -- Bodies built for flight -- Mealtime for pterosaurs -- Baby pterosaurs -- Discovering pterosaur fossils -- Pterodactyl -- A Jurassic lagoon -- In the air over western Kansas -- The Brazilian pterosaurs -- A "hairy" pterosaur -- The last of the pterosaurs -- Where you can see pterosaur fossils.