THIS IS SO FUNNY!!!
Pterodactyl has a silent P and is the correct way to spell it. Here are some other words with silent letters = wrap, comb, sign, knight.
When Dax was a tiny kiddo - he would protest and make this squawking scream of dissaprovment to some of my requests. So we nicknamed him pteroDAXtyl!
Pterodactyl definition is - any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
Scientific name: Pterodactylus (Winged finger)
Extinction status: Extinct Encyclopedia of Life
Higher classification: Ctenochasmatoidea
Fossils: TM 10341, MB.R.2844, BMNH 37 002, MB.R.2842
Did you know: A pterodactyl (also referred to as pterodactylus) is a type of creature from the genus pterosaurs, most well-known as flying reptiles.softschools.com
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