As if the thought of a flying pterosaur with a 6.5 foot wingspan dominating Earth’s skies wasn’t terrifying enough, paleontologists have now found an even older pterosaur ancestor with some ...

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 ...

Whatever the story behind the pterosaur fossil, leaving private hands to a secure place in a museum allowed it to finally be described. Initially, McNamara says, she and her colleagues studied the ...

Now, a researcher has discovered a species new to science — and possibly the “missing link.” A “unique and extraordinarily preserved complete skeleton” of a pterosaur was discovered in ...

The larger pterosaur, Arambourgiania philadelphiae, had internal ridges that spiralled up and down inside its bones, similar to modern birds like eagles that fly with their wings in a fixed position.

Pterosaurs were thus able to maintain supremacy as the rulers of the open sky. But when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, killing all the nonavian dinosaurs, the pterosaurs ...

Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had diverse flight styles such as soaring.

They were able to confirm discovery of the first ever juvenile pterosaur in Australia — bones that are . . . believed to be 107 million years old. The lead researcher, a PhD student at Curtin's ...

Pêgas noted that the pterosaur's opposable thumbs have implications for our understanding of evolution. "The discovery is interesting because it represents the oldest case of an opposed thumb ...

New research reveals that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, had feathers – and they could actually control the color of those feathers in a way similar to modern birds.

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago ...

Paleontologists in China found pellets of undigested food — just like ones owls leave behind — preserved with pterosaur fossils. By Asher Elbein Fur, bones, feathers and scales can be murder ...