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 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.

About 130 million years ago, when pterosaurs still dominated the skies ... fused clavicles (creating a wishbone) and an alula, a wing feature that improves maneuverability during flight.

“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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists say they have discovered a new species of flying reptile, known as Skiphosoura bavarica, or the Bavarian swordtail, in the form of a fossilized skeleton in the southern German state.

re-examined the fossil and determined that it is part of a foreleg in a wing or a hind leg of a pterosaur. “The discovery will provide a clue to the ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean around the mid ...

During the Late Cretaceous, winged prehistoric creatures called pterosaurs dominated the air. They were the first vertebrates to master flight. They were not dinosaurs but closely related.

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 ...

The lack of muscles to support wing bones supported the idea that baby pterosaurs walked on the ground and were probably unable to fly at an early age.

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram ... the fourth phalanx of its wing finger is shorter than the first.