How architects worked with harsh environment to create sustainable building in location where fossils were found ...

The well-preserved find from Scotland’s Isle of Skye offers a rare peek into the evolutionary journey of these ancient wonders on wings. A new genus of pterosaur found on the wave-battered coastline ...

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.

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...