The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could ...

T he massive sail-back dinosaur, Spinosaurus, might have hunted in shallow waters similar to a heron, rather than in deep waters as previously believed. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was among the ...

Researchers at Edinburgh University harness new laser technology to discover large sail-like ‘vanes’ at the end of the dinosaurs’ tails Dinosaurs evolved to take to the skies thanks to large ...

The vanes on early pterosaur tails were supported by criss-crossing fibers and tube-like structures, providing stability and direction during flight.

The dinosaur was around 30 feet (9 meters ... The species was also equipped with a variety of unique features, including a large sail on its back. A 19th-century mosasaur statue in Crystal ...

Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to large sail-like "vanes" at the ends of their tails ... and thrived for more than 100 million years before perishing with the dinosaurs in the extinction at the ...

One member of this group was a large, sail-backed animal called dimetrodon, which looks like it could be a dinosaur but isn’t. Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.