Pterosaurs

Pterosaurs are an order of flying reptiles. The name Pterosaur means "winged lizard" in Latin. Pterosaurs were featured in many Jurassic Park media and are famously miscategorized as "flying dinosaurs" even though they are not true Dinosaurs, even by Jurassic Park media itself. Pterosaurs were engineered by InGen as attractions to the park. The Pteranodon species were planned for the initial Aviary in Phase 1 but a Geosternbergia was also cloned on Site B when InGen released information to the public on InGen's List. Jurassic Park: The Game reveals that Pteranodons were on Isla Nublar during the Isla Nublar Incident (1993) and got released. They appeared to combat the Lysine contingency by eating local fish. Isla Sorna was also revealed to have two separate variations of Pteranodon. One of the variations was seen at the end of The Lost World: Jurassic Park (film) and is shown to have a little crest at the tip of its head and freely roam the island. The variation that shows up in Jurassic Park III appeared to be trapped in an aviary but were than released by accident and flew away at the end of the Isla Sorna Incident (2001) and eventually reached Canada. Vic Hoskins of the InGen Security Division wiped them out and was subsequently hired by Simon Masrani to become the head of security for Jurassic World. There was also a Jurassic World Aviary which housed both Pteranodon and Dimorphodon and was built on top of a river so that they can naturally predate on fish. During the Isla Nublar Incident (2015) the Indominus rex had broken through the glass after being chased down by the JW001 that was being piloted by Masrani and outfitted with a minigun. Some of the animals had broken through the hole and attacked the helicoptor, killing both the gunner and the co-pilot than causing Masrani to crash the helicoptor through the roof, landing next to the I-rex and causing an explosion that killed him and caused all the other Pterosaurs to fly out in panic. The Pterosaurs headed to Main Street and started attacking and harassing all the tourists and businesses. One of the Pteranodons swoop up Zara Young and drop her in the Mosasaurus lagoon. Than 3 Pteranodons reveal themselves to have the ability to swim underwater, still trying to predate on Zara. One of the Pteranodons succeeds but is eaten by the Mosasaurus in a similar fashion to its great white shark feeding. Owen Grady and the Jurassic World security force started taking down individuals by a Dimorphodon attacks Owen and nearly mauls his face but is rescued by Claire Dearing who shoots it down with a gun she picked up. When Vic Hoskins takes charge of the park, he calls in reinforcements. One InGen Soldier seeing a fleeing Dimorphodon and shoots it down as he's on the helicoptor riding to Isla Nublar. Eventually all the guests were isolated and deported but the fate of the rest of the Pterosaurs isn't exactly shown to the audience. Pterosaurs also appear in other forms of Jurassic Park media and merchandise. In Jurassic Park (novel) the only Pterosaurs that appear are Cearadactylus and it shares the traits of the Pteranodons seen in Jurassic Park III. Skulls and other human remains are also found in the Isla Sorna Aviary implying that it was those Pteranodons who caused the accident that lead to the deaths of the Dino-Soar crew but the shot of the gate opening as well as them flying off in the ending implies that they were trapped in their all along, as this was the ending that was decided upon. Although they decided to change the plot point of the Pteranodons being trapped instead of killing the boat crew, they kept the skulls in. While its possible that these skulls were from a person who previously died on the island during the Isla Sorna Incident (1997), as no deaths were reported from InGen personnel before Hurricane Clarissa, how they even got to the human remains when they were supposed to be trapped remains to be seen.