摘要:1 Introduction Pterosaurs are the first known flying vertebrates, which took to the air in the Late Triassic, about 225 million years ago. Although they are flying reptiles, they have sometimes been regarded as warm-blooded, due to their bat-like hair covering and bird-like behavior (Seeley, 1870). Reptiles are generally regarded as cold-blooded animals, but the body structures and living behaviors of pterosaurs suggest that their physiology differed from that of typical reptiles. Beginning…