Pterosaurs, prehistoric flying reptiles, have captured imagination of many. They have ruled the skies at the time when dinosaurs ruled the earth millions of years ago. To tickle the popular imagination once again, an international exhibition in New York opens up on Saturday to explore the world of the prehistoric flying reptiles.

The exhibition, 'Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs', will be organized at the American Museum of Natural History from Saturday and will run till January 2015. The exhibition, which is considered to be the biggest one in the United States about these flying reptiles, will also give visitors an opportunity to 'pilot' two species of pterosaurs over prehistoric landscapes.

They would be able to go through a sensor programme that can reproduce human movements on screen. The exhibition will showcase fossils of pterosaurs and realistic models as well.

"Despite persistently captivating our popular imagination, pterosaurs is among the least well understood large animals from the age of dinosaurs", said museum president Ellen Futter.

There are more than 150 species of pterosaurs and then also, they are less studied species. Pterosaurs are the first vertebrates to fly. One of the exciting qualities of the species is that they varied in size from a two-seater plane to a sparrow.

Quetzalcoatlus northropi was the size of a two-seater plane and Nemicolopterus crypticus was just 25 centimeters. Co-curator Alexander Kellner from Brazil's Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro is quite excited about the exhibition.

Mark A. Norell, Curator and Chair, Division of Paleontology, shared pterosaurs lived between 66 and 200 million years ago.