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 ...

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 ...

A skeletal reconstruction of a comb-jawed pterosaur walking across an ancient mudflat, its posture and movement informed by fossil trackways. Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have ...

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.

Protecting endangered animals is important, especially when the animal is in danger because of humans. The reality is, however, that most animals that ever existed have already gone extinct, many of ...

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 ...

With 23-foot wingspans and hefty bodies, the ancient airborne reptiles of the Jurassic Period might seem the unlikeliest of flying machines. In fact, as commonly depicted, these animals, called ...

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 ...

A species of flying reptile related to dinosaurs were able to evolve and take to the skies using aerodynamic features in their wings similar to modern planes, scientists discovered. Pterosaurs - known ...