Pterodactyl

## Pterodactyls

The main monsters from the 2005 film, *Pterodactyl*.

## Background

When an earthquake occurs by a volcano that has been dormant since Jurassic at Northern Turkey, it causes the volcano to spill out eggs that soon started to hatch, giving birth to a bunch of baby pterodactyls. After two months of maturing and becoming fully grown, the pterodactyls start hunting for prey.

## Biography

As three hunters were wondering in the woods, they’re suddenly attacked by the pterodactyls where they start diving toward them until they kill all of them.

Later, an anthropologist named Prof. Michael Lovecraft goes on an expedition with a group of students to find fossils at the dormant volcano. During the expedition, one of the students finds a tree that’s covered in pterodactyl urine, leaving Michael baffled.

Later, when everyone stops to set up a campsite, one of the students, Angie, goes swimming in a lake where one of the pterodactyls spots her and tries to attack her with its talons. Angie manages to get out of the lake when the pterodactyl makes one last attempt to swoop down at her but misses. Another one of the students, Jason, checks out the lake when Angie tells him about the pterodactyl. When he looks around, the pterodactyl appears and carries Jason up into the sky. After Angie tries to tell everyone, they all go ahead on the expedition.

However, one of the pterodactyls appears again and starts swooping over the Jeep to get them. When the Jeep breaks down, they all try to run. One of the students, Gwen, keeps on tripping however, while another student, Willis, looks at the pterodactyl with awe. Michael manages to save Willis from the pterodactyl diving at him, but the winged dinosaur steps on Gwen and carries her off into the sky.

An army of American soldiers arrive in the woods to fight against Armenian terrorists and they see the flock of pterodactyls flying in the sky. Once the Armenian terrorists arrive and take Michael and the group hostage, more pterodactyls appear and start attacking them. As the Armenian terrorists shoot at them, the American soldiers shoot at the pterodactyls while also shooting at the terrorists to get Michael and his group out.

The American soldiers walk through the woods with Michael and his group until the pterodactyls arrive again and start to attack them. The soldiers shoot at them, but some of them get killed. One of the pterodactyls grabs Angie while Willis was holding on to her. When it grabs her, her arm gets pulled off. One of the soldiers manages to kill the pterodactyl before it flies Angie higher into the sky, making it drop her to the ground. While they manage to kill off most of the pterodactyls, one of them carries another one of Michael’s students, Kate, to the nest. They all check out one of the dead pterodactyls where they find out that it was pregnant. As they walk some more, Michael suggest they kill the dominant male of the pterodactyls.

Later, after a pterodactyl kills and eats a woodsman, the group takes his cabin as shelter. However, they get attacked by the pterodactyls again where one of the soldiers, Zelasny, gets wounded. After getting Zelasny inside, the pterodactyls start swarming all over the cabin. The rest of the soldiers start shooting at them through the roof. However, one of them breaks through the window and gets Willis’ leg with its beak. Michael manages to save him by shooting the pterodactyl in the eye, wounding it and letting it get eaten by its own species. Willis notes that when the pterodactyls sense that one of them is dying, they’ll kill and eat it so its resources won’t be used by other predators.

With too many pterodactyls surrounding them, the captain, Bergen, gets Michael to help him shoot at the pterodactyls as well as use a targeting visor to launch a missile launcher at them. They manage to kill most of them off, leaving one left.

Back at the nest, Kate manages to find one of the dead American soldier's radio and calls back to the others. Bergen, Michael, and the rest of the American soldiers go off to find the nest while Willis stays behind with the wounded Zelasny. However, as the other go toward the nest, more pterodactyls arrive and kill Willis and Zelasny.

## Powers/Abilities

**Wings**: The Pterodactyls are equipped with wings that allow them to soar through the sky, dive at their prey, and to slice their prey up once swooping at them.

**Talons**: The Pterodactyls are equipped with sharp talons on their feet to grab their prey and scratch them.

**Beak**: The Pterodactyls are able to use their beaks to peck their preys’ bodies to eat their insides.

## Kills

* **Hunter #1**: Sliced in half from the waist when a pterodactyl dives toward him.
* **Hunter #2**: Face scratched when pterodactyl flies at him.
* **Hunter #3**: pterodactyl dives at him and kills him with it’s talons. Later, found at the pterodactyl nest where his insides are being pecked by baby pterodactyls.
* **Jason**: Carried up high into the sky and killed, leaving behind a severed arm in the lake.(off-screen)
* **Gwen**: Stepped on and later carried away to be killed.(off-screen)
* **Armenian terrorist #1**: Stepped on the chest and killed.(off-screen)
* **Armenian terrorist #2**: Chest pecked out.
* **Armenian terrorist #3**: Chest pecked out.
* **Americana soldier #1**: Upper body tear off from waist and carried off into the sky.
* **Clarke**: Gets carried off into the sky.(off-screen)
* **Angie**: Gets arm teared off, small cut on stomach, and falls down to the ground when she was being carried up in the sky.
* **America soldier #2**: Head gets sliced off by wing.
* **Woodsman**: Head and upper body teared off and get guts eaten.(off-screen)