I see a lot of paleo art on Twitter, and Gabriel Ugueto is among the best of the paleo artists. Here’s how he envisioned a flock of Pterodaustro maybe 105 million years ago. It’s believed they would use their bills like flamingos do, as they share some of the same unique bill features, and probably ate similar sorts if food, being that 105 million years ago the same sorts of eats were available. Some paleontologists suggest they may have even shared a pink color, which Ugueto hints at here by setting this painting in the light of dawn or dusk. These guys would have been bigger than flamingos, though, with wingspans about 8 feet wide. They weighed maybe nine pounds, not much of a Thanksgiving feast on those hollow reptilian bones. They were long gone by 65 million years ago, but other pterosaurs were there, huge weird gorgeous flying soaring things that up and disappeared when the asteroid hit the planet and killed nearly everything. Oh well.
