After a successful mate, the Pteranodon lays a fertilized egg.Incubation temperature must stay between 29°C and 32°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range.At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~1 day and 13 hours (1x rate), progressing over a lengthy period.Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation.After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.

Each baby inherits stats from both parents with a chance of mutation - +2 wild levels to a random stat plus a color change.Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.

Raising a baby Pteranodon involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~222 min and requires constant hand-feeding.Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~15h - it can eat from a Trough now.Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~19h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.

Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Pteranodon's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it.Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.

The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Pteranodon.Budget ~222 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.

Raising multiple Pteranodon simultaneously?Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically.Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.

The Pteranodon is a tamable, flying, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended.

With 150 base Stamina, the Pteranodon has decent staying power.Melee starts at 100% - respectable melee power that scales with level-ups.At 210 base HP, the Pteranodon is relatively fragile.Weight capacity starts at 120, giving it average weight tolerance.

The Pteranodon is a knockout tame: apply enough torpor to knock it out, then place food in its inventory.Regular Kibble is the most effective food for taming, offering the highest affinity per feeding.

As a tame, the Pteranodon is commonly used for scouting and quick travel between locations.Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 29°C–32°C temperature window.Defeating one in the wild grants 3 base XP.It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.79 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.