You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

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.

One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover ... Skye McDavid conducted a deep dive on the mysterious skeleton, evaluating its eccentricities. The researchers made detailed measurements ...

“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 ...

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

Related: Jurassic 'mist wing' fossil discovered on Scottish island could be missing link in pterosaur evolution Pterosaur flight has a long history of baffling paleontologists. In the 18th century ...

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 ...

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 ...