You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Credit: public domain CC0 Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old evolutionary mystery. Skiphosoura bavarica fills ...

The pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight. The species evolved to form enormous wingspans reaching ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of an unusual prehistoric event: a pterosaur fossil with crocodile bite marks. This ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

The young pterosaur likely had a wingspan of about 6.5 feet, and if it had survived to adulthood, its wingspan could have reached up to 33 feet.

Studying the ancient flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs could help engineers make aeroplanes that are more ...