The official newspaper in Bucharest, to the contrary, said that they were intelligent reptiles.

It was true that almost 10 years had passed since they had encountered these highly developed and extremely intelligent reptiles in the system of Vega but the skirmish with them was still fresh in the memory of both men.

Set in Edgar Rice Burroughs' imaginary interior world of Pellucidar, the book features a species of intelligent flying reptiles (Mahars) invented by Burroughs in his first Pellucidar novel, At the Earth's Core.

"They're the most intelligent reptiles," said Paul Kuchyuskas, an exhibit program assistant.

The story "The Nameless City" describes a pre-human race of intelligent reptiles.

The host included several castes and species from the lowest minor drake-huge reptiles almost as intelligent as horses and often used for the same purpose-to the elite of the ruling drake class, the humanoid warlords who drove their beastlike cousins and their lower-caste brethren before them.

Again taking to their lifeboat, they landed on the planet Delgon, where they were rescued from a horde of Catlats by one Worsel-later to become Lensman Worsel of Velantia-a highly intelligent winged reptile.

It is inhabited by prehistoric creatures of all geological eras, and dominated by the Mahars, a species of flying reptile both intelligent and civilized, but which enslaves and preys on the local stone-age humans.

A race of intelligent flying reptiles had evolved in the mere thousands of years that had passed since the Change, so life-rich had the substance of the world become.

The region in which Innes and Perry initially find themselves is ruled by the cities of the Mahars, intelligent flying reptiles resembling Rhamphorhynchus with dangerous psychic powers, who keep the local tribelets of Stone Age human beings in subjugation.