These were similar to pterodactyls, the best known of all the pterosaur groups. Ctenochasmatoids were mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic pterosaurs. They had a long body with short wing proportions ...

By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something took a bite out of a young pterosaur. Pterosaurs were large, flying reptiles that roamed our planet’s skies when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain and lowered its toothless ...

Researchers used traces of delicate tissues that survived for millions of years to solve the riddle of how the first pterosaurs were able to take flight. University of Edinburgh academics used new ...

BANDO, Ibaraki Prefecture—A fossilized bone piece long hailed as coming from a pterosaur flying reptile is actually from a “suppon” softshell turtle, according to a re-examination that ...

NAGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A fossil of a pterosaur, a flying reptile from about 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Kagoshima Prefecture for the first time, according to Nagashima ...

Now the mystery puzzling researchers - how winged reptiles called pterosaurs were able to get their air miles - has finally been solved. It's all thanks to the help of the latest laser technology.

Adults of this pterosaur, whose scientific name means ... strategy - with suggestions from carrion-feeding scavengers to aquatic probers to heron-like terrestrial stalkers," Brown said.

Discover the fossilized remains of a young Cryodrakon pterosaur in Alberta, revealing a deadly encounter with a crocodile.