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Researchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years ...

The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, ...

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

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A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced. A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced by ...

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 the ...

Paleontologist Brian Pickles was wrapping up a field course in Alberta, Canada, when he came across a curious little fossil in Dinosaur Provincial Park. BRIAN PICKLES: When we brought it back to do an ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor. By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something ...

When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were ...

On May 17, 1986, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum unleashed its flying reptile at Andrews Air Force Base. Known as Q.N. to the engineers and experts who created the flyer, the model was a ...

76 million years ago, a young pterosaur might have had a very bad day. A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...