About 150 million years ago powerful storm winds buffeted two young pterosaurs, snapping forelimb bones in their fragile wings and sending them hurtling to their deaths in the muddy depths of a lagoon ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

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.

Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.

A newly identified species of pterosaur has provided critical insights into the evolutionary changes that shaped these ancient flying reptiles, bridging the gap between early species and their larger, ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — The fossil of a 170 ...

Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles. By Elizabeth Landau Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new study. The fossilised neck ...