It’s also the first pterosaur ever found in Syria. Pterosaurs were large dinosaur relatives that were the first vertebrate species to evolve to have the ability of active flight, a trait we see now in ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered direct evidence of what prehistoric flying reptiles, known as pterosaurs, ...

Perhaps the evidence has been hidden in plain sight, our own bias preventing our eyes from seeing what stands before them. An investigation into the artifacts of the Bismarck heritage reveals many ...

Pterosaurs and Archaeopteryx took to the skies, but there was trouble in this Jurassic paradise: Tropical storms would turn ...

A gigantic flying reptile fossil found in Syria reveals a new chapter in Cretaceous history and expands the known range of ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

You have seen the classic shape: long wings, a pointed beak, and a crest slicing the air above a prehistoric shoreline. It is ...

(CNN) — A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils.

The cause of death of two young pterosaurs that had baffled researchers has been revealed by paleontologists in Germany in what they have described as “a post-mortem 150 million years in the making”.

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species including the well-known pterodactyl. At a remote bone bed in Arizona, dense with ...