large pterosaurs that stayed on the wing across oceans for days at a time like albatrosses, and pterosaurs that stood in briny shallows and filter fed like pink flamingos. Among the most exciting ...

The newly documented pterosaur was described based on the remains of a single individual—consisting of an incomplete skeleton that includes parts of the shoulders, wings, legs and backbone.

The pterosaur sweeps its large keen eyes over the water, pulls its wings inward to pick up speed ... with fossils and pointed out a fragile skeleton, which was no bigger than my hand.

Despite being one of the most widely dispersed clades of prehistoric reptiles, the paleoecology of pterosaurs is poorly ...

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

“The mechanics of flight leaves an imprint on the skeleton,” says ... like eagles that fly with their wings in a fixed position. Bones of the smaller pterosaur, Inabtanin alarabia – a ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

(Victor Beccari) (CN) — A rare, smuggled fossil seized in a police raid in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is helping researchers learn more about pterosaurs ... wrote a study of the limestone-encased complete ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated incomplete bones to articulated skeletons on slabs. British pterosaurs are well represented in the collection ...