Tiny bones locked in stone for millions of years have finally told their sad story. The 150-million-year-old fossils belong to a pair of pterosaur hatchlings, both of whom appear to have perished in a ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about pterosaurs, the largest animals that ever flew, and get information, facts, and more about these prehistoric flying reptiles.

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.

According to a new study in iScience, researchers found an especially well-preserved 113-million-year-old pterosaur fossil in Brazil. As if that wasn’t rare enough, this miraculously good-looking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. For paleontologists, Skiphosoura bavarica shows how these winged reptiles ...

New discoveries are changing long-held views of the biggest, meanest, and most bizarre animals that ever flew.

During the Jurassic period, sharp-toothed flying reptiles with the wingspan of a modern golden eagle soared through the skies, before being wiped out by the same meteor that decimated the dinosaurs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's interpretation of Venetoraptor gassenae in a Triassic landscape. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs both evolved about 235 million ...

A few years ago, Maria McNamara was invited to Brussels by fellow paleontologist Pascal Godefroit and presented with an intriguing opportunity. At the time, they were collaborating on a study of an ...

An unusual new species of pterosaur has been identified, which had over 400 teeth that looked like the prongs of a nit comb. The fossil was found in a German quarry and has been described by ...

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Sink your teeth into this strange species of pterosaur. Some were small, while others weren’t. Some possessed wide wings, and some possessed slimmer, slenderer ones. Some were stuck with an awkward ...