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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The pterosaur had a “very unusual short, but stiff and pointed tail,” researchers said, unique to the species. They named the ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived ...

Pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles that soared alongside dinosaurs, had an incredible evolutionary journey. These creatures ranged from small, eagle-sized species to giants with wingspans of 10 ...

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

only flying reptiles. This is a common misunderstanding, as the average person doesn't know the difference between dinosaurs and pterosaurs, or the name experts use when referring to these flying ...