It's true! Dinosaurs still exist. John Conway dissected a Rhamphorhyncus, and drew what he saw, here.
I had "dinosaur" in the title but as Chris points out, that's a bad error, like calling a mammal a turtle.
Damn, I'm not having much luck. Not a pteranodon then...
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tut tut . . . Rhamphorhynchus is a Pterosaur, not a dinosaur
Cough... Um, Pteranodon is a another genus of pterosaur along with Rhamphorhynchus.