A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms. While the bigger ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests. In a ...

Reptiles can fly! No, seriously. Learn about flying reptiles of the dinosaur age during the Tate Geological Museum’s Saturday Club. Students will learn about the various adaptations that enabled ...

Flight evolved only three times among vertebrates: in bats, birds, and the extinct flying reptile called pterosaurs. Of these, pterosaurs were the first to master flight, more than 215 million years ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...