Most people respond to the word ‘pterosaurs’ with a puzzled expression, until you add, ‘like pterodactyls.’ That’s the common name given to the first pterosaur discovered in the 18th ...

The early pterosaurs had short heads, necks, and wrist bones to hold their wings, but long tails and fifth toes. When the pterodactyloids emerged from the fossil equivalent of the dark ages all ...

Paleontologists used UV fluorescence to find 50 Pterodactylus fossils, revealing their full family, from hatchlings to adults ...

Pterosaurs evolved active flight over 230 million years ago. The discovery of Melkamter pateko in Argentina suggests ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

Just in time for Christmas, paleontologists at the University of Leicester have linked nearly 50 relatives of Pterodactylus, ...

The remains of the pterosaur were found on the Isle of Skye—an island located just off the northwest coast of mainland ...

But they piqued the palaeontologist's interest because they date to a murky and critical point in the fossil record - about 10 million years before the first fossil pterosaurs. "The first ...

The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution.

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...