Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

shows several characters of the advanced pterodactyloids—but is around 15 million years older than its next-oldest known relative. Apparently, the origin of this group of pterosaurs reaches much ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of feathers in pterosaurs today (December 17) in Nature Ecology & Evolution. If confirmed, this report pushes the origin of feathers back 80 million years, into ...

The study, by Dr. Junchang Lü of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "An Egg-Adult Association, Gender, and Reproduction in Pterosaurs." ...

NAGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A fossil of a pterosaur, a flying reptile from about 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Kagoshima Prefecture for the first time, according to Nagashima ...