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 ...

One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover as it grew older and larger. Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds. When you purchase through ...

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 ...

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.