Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey both endured week-long wedgies while performing stunts for Jurassic World Rebirth. For ...

The distortus Rex is a six-limbed mutated Tyrannosaurus rex that was birthed from an attempt to genetically engineer the ...

Jurassic World is arguably one of the most iconic cinematic franchises in Hollywood. That's why fans often come back to the franchise with claws out, teeth bared.

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...

By combining information about pterosaur and lagerpetid fossils with climate data from more than 200 million years ago, a team of scientists have looked at where these animals lived during the ...

A groundbreaking discovery has just placed Japan on the map of ancient flying creatures. For the first time in history, paleontologists have identified a pterosaur species from skeletal remains found ...

More information: Xuanyu Zhou et al, Reassessment of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen from the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan, Cretaceous Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106046 ...

Kumamoto – A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been from a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile. A research ...

A new analysis of pterosaur bones, however, suggests that their microstructure could inspire lighter, stronger aircraft materials. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived throughout the world ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap from a smaller to larger wingspan size and other physical changes. Skiphosoura bavarica is described in a study published ...