Researchers have long puzzled over how winged dinosaurs ruled the skies – until now. Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to ...
Researchers at Edinburgh University harness new laser technology to discover large sail-like ‘vanes’ at the end of the ...
Humans have a long history of misinterpreting ancient fossils. Here are 10 creatures from the dinosaur age that looked way ...
Paleontologists used UV fluorescence to find 50 Pterodactylus fossils, revealing their full family, from hatchlings to adults ...
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 ...
Pterosaurs evolved active flight over 230 million years ago. The discovery of Melkamter pateko in Argentina suggests ...
The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution.
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 ...