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 as it grew older and larger. Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil ...

They discovered that pterosaur bones contained a complex network of tiny canals, making them both lightweight and incredibly strong — details of its structure that have never been seen before. The ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found. Scientists from The University of ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived ... But sometimes, researchers are left to comb through other types of evidence. Other evidence comes à la fossilized poop — or, more ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could be replicated to develop materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research from Manchester University has found. Microscopic ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs, dominating the skies throughout the Mesozoic Era (66 million to 252.2 million years ago). They were the first vertebrates on the ...