Since the discovery of Yandangopterus orientalis in 1997, more than 40 species of pterosaur fossils have been found in western Liaoning and its surrounding areas. As of September 2016, the Jehol ...

Of more than 120 named species, the smallest pterosaur measured no bigger than a sparrow; the largest reached a wingspan of nearly 40 feet (12 meters), wider than an F-16 fighter. Until recently ...

nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via Xinhua) SHENYANG, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a ...

Oliver Rauhut of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology (SNSB—Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie and Geologie) have now introduced a new species of pterosaur from ...

This newly discovered species belongs to the Wukongopteridae, an important pterosaur clade from the Yanliao Biota in northeastern China. The new species distinguishes itself from other members of ...

Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the skies, with wingspans of over ten meters (on par with military aircraft like the Spitfire).

SHENYANG, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown pterosaur species in Jianchang County, northeast China ...

Hundreds of pterosaur eggs in one place is impressive, but Unwin said we’d need more evidence to demonstrate another suggestion in the paper: that this species of pterosaur was a communal nester ...

SHENYANG, 13 March (BelTA - Xinhua) - Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown pterosaur species in Jianchang County ...

26. A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in East Asia to have ever been found in adjacent layers of earth. The cylindrical pterosaur fossil, nicknamed “Satsuma ...