Nothing has ever flown through the air as magnificently as a giant pterosaur. Not that I’ve seen one to say for absolutely certain. The last of the great leathery-winged flyers died out with the ...

Earlier this week paleontologists Mark Witton and Michael Habib published a new study in PLoS One on how pterosaurs—particularly large forms such as Quetzalcoatlus—took to the air.

Yet if new research is right, then at least some of the magnificent flying reptiles of the Mesozoic called pterosaurs. ... Mark Witton and Darren Naish of the University of Portsmouth beg to differ.

Scaphognathus was a pterosaur with a 3-foot ... is a new golden age of pterosaur research," Witton said, ... The 11 most astonishing scientific discoveries of 2023.

Dr. Mark Witton — palaeontologist, palaeoartist, and author of the forthcoming book Pterosaurs — answers all these questions and more in the second half of a two part series that explores the ...

Mark Witton A cat looks into the eyes of an azhdarchid pterosaur, challenging it silently to a duel. This is a painting of small azhdarchid pterosaurs with wingspans of just over a meter, found in ...

The answer, according to Mark Witton of the University of Portsmouth, UK, is that pterosaurs didn’t fly like birds. “We need to appreciate that pterosaurs had their own unique mechanisms of ...

Actually, where pterosaurs fit on the Sauropsida family tree is up for debate, but they would seem to be compellingly argued as a part of the ornithodrians, 'a dinosaur sister group' as Mr. Witton ...