For example, in the early pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, baby specimens have teardrop-shaped tail vanes. In their teenage years ...

A unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. Its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a ...

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 ...

Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers ...

Now the mystery puzzling researchers - how winged reptiles called pterosaurs were able to get their air miles - has finally been solved. It's all thanks to the help of the latest laser technology.

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 ...

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

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus ...

China's research team has established, for the first time, the anatomical relationship between the large pterosaur footprints in the Wu'erhe Pterosaur fauna of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang and ...