A study led by the University of Leicester has linked fossilized tracks of flying reptiles to the specific animals that ...

None might be as genetically modified as Distortus, but they’ve been created with many different mutations. Some, like the ...

Experts from the Perth-based Curtin University and Museums Victoria, in Melbourne, examined bones from two individuals, including a wing bone belonging to the first juvenile pterosaur ever ...

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Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists has uncovered remarkable details of a pterosaur's soft tissue. Despite an age of approximately 145–163 million years ...

That’s how palaeontologists are reacting to the discovery of several hundred ridiculously well-preserved pterosaur eggs in China, some of them still containing the remains of embryos.

Part of the pterosaur family, the new species, Balaenognathus maeuseri, would have waded through the water and used its long toothed beak to catch shrimp 152 million years ago. The 480-odd teeth ...

Languages: English, Spanish A new species of pterosaur was discovered from a period and location that came as a "complete surprise" to the team of paleontologists. The remains of the pterosaur ...

A newly discovered lagerpetid is shedding light on the mysterious evolution of the pterosaurs that once dominated Earth's skies. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 18, 2023 8:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a pterosaur precursor, and this animal is so bizarre,” said Rodrigo Temp Müller, a paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria ...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of ...