“They basically take a bird model and put a membrane wing ... “And a big head is good for sexual display.” Pterosaurs, he told his questioner at that talk, “were giant flying murder ...

In a flash the pterosaur jerks its head up and veers skyward, gripping a wriggling fish in its teeth. Along the shore diminutive pterosaurs called Tapejara wellnhoferi pluck nuts and fruit from ...

Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously ...

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 ...

The bone, which belonged to a young pterosaur, was unearthed in Canada in July 2023 by researchers from the University of Reading. A subsequent study released last month found that the bone ...

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 ...