This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most people respond to the word ‘pterosaurs’ with a puzzled expression, until you add, ‘like pterodactyls.

In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers from the University of Leicester examined the first true flying ...

Skiphosoura bavarica, a newly discovered Jurassic-era pterosaur, has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary ...

In an eat-or-be-eaten world, flight conveys a bevy of benefits. A creature that takes to the third dimension can more easily escape earthbound predators, dine off a much broader menu or drop down ...

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 ...

Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A new species of Wukongopteridae, Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov, has been ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...