It’s also because pterosaur anatomy is frankly weird and seemingly ill suited to life on land or in the sky. Some scientists have depicted pterosaurs dragging themselves along the ground on ...

A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

As it draws near, the primeval pterosaur transforms into an ordinary brown pelican. Keven Padian, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, stands on the beach gazing at the ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived ... One scientist proposed they belonged to a weird sea creature, and another thought they represented a transitional form between birds and ...

So how were they able to take flight? Scientists have only recently solved this ancient mystery thanks to a strange vane in pterosaur tails. Five times larger than the tyrannosaurs of its era ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new study. The fossilised ...

Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were likely more diverse in the Jurassic than the fossil record suggests.

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found. Scientists from The University of ...

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 ...

A fossilized neck bone of a juvenile Azhdarchid pterosaur from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, shows a puncture mark from a crocodilian bite, dating back 76 million years.