Their endurance record is almost inconceivable compared with the span of humans, whose ancestors started walking upright less than four million years ago. Uncontested in the air, pterosaurs ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Feathers are complex skin structures, and their evolutionary beginnings are still a subject of scientific debate. Scientific ...

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 ...

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 ...

By then mammal ancestors had hair, and the pterosaurs, dinosaurs and relatives had likely acquired feathers to help insulate them as well. Independent evidence shows that land vertebrates, including ...

"Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur clade from the Yanliao Biota [the fossil assemblage preserved in northeastern China from the Middle to Late Jurassic which can traced back from 174.1 ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via ...