Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were likely more diverse in the Jurassic than the fossil record suggests. Armed ...
A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...
You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...
One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover ... Not so, researchers report January 2 in PeerJ. The Jurassic “giant,” they argue, is a superlative for this species.
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.
The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...
This is the first evidence of prehistoric crocodilians in North America as opportunistic feeders, especially on giant pterosaurs. Other crocodilian bite marks have been found on pterosaur fossils in ...
The hole is also the right size for two species of crocs that coexisted with giant pterosaurs. For Dr. Brown, that made a crocodilian predator or scavenger the “most likely candidate” for the ...
Pterosaur's neck bone shows evidence of a croc bite Fossil found at Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park Jan 24 (Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying ...
LAMBERT: The lives of pterosaurs are still pretty mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, their bones are actually quite delicate, and so fossils are rare. This find turned out to be a juvenile, ...
Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were likely more diverse in the Jurassic than the fossil record suggests.