During the Jurassic period, sharp-toothed flying reptiles with the wingspan of a modern golden eagle soared through the skies ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap from a smaller to larger wingspan size and other ...

A complete specimen reveals how pterosaurs evolved from early forms into the massive giants of later periods. The pterosaurs ...

For 200 years, palaeontologists split the pterosaurs into two major groups, the early non-pterodactyloids and the later and ...

The remains of a huge flying reptile from the age of the dinosaurs have gone on display after they were unearthed at a quarry ...

Take-off is a vital part of powered flight which likely constrains the size of birds, yet extinct pterosaurs are known to ...

As it turns out, there were no flying dinosaurs, only flying reptiles. This is a common misunderstanding, as the average person doesn't know the difference between dinosaurs and pterosaurs, or the ...

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...

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

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

Northeastern Australia, once submerged under the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous, was home to massive pterosaurs. In 2021, ...

Since 1997, Wang Xiaolin and his team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese ...