You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived ... But sometimes, researchers are left to comb through other types of evidence. Other evidence comes à la fossilized poop — or, more ...

A new species of pterosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The winged reptile, named Ceoptera evansae, lived between 168 to 166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic ...

Some 80 million years before birds took flight, another group of creatures dominated the skies — the pterosaurs. These extraordinary reptiles were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight.

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

Archosaurs are reptiles that are divided into two major branches: the bird-line, which includes pterosaurs and dinosaurs, including living dinosaurs (birds); and the crocodilian line, including ...