At the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago, a meteorite or comet slammed into Earth. That calamity—and other events—wiped out roughly three-quarters of all animal species, including all remaining pterosaurs and dinosaurs.

Did pterosaurs survive extinction?

Many of the new lifestyle adaptations were seen in the pterosaurs skulls, as they adapted to feed on different food sources; some were seed-eaters, many ate fish, and later ones even lost their teeth. ... Pterosaurs dwindled and disappeared 65 million years during the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

What killed pterodactyl?

Sixty six million years ago, life on Earth had a very bad day. That's when an immense asteroid slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, triggering one of the worst extinction crises of all time. This, of course, was the disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs.