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

For example, in the early pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, baby specimens have teardrop-shaped tail vanes. In their teenage years the vane took a kite-like shape and in adulthood it resembles a ...

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something took a bite out of a young pterosaur. Pterosaurs were large, flying reptiles that roamed our planet’s skies when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

For example, in the early pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, baby specimens have teardrop-shaped tail vanes. In their teenage years the vane took a kite-like shape and in adulthood it resembles 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 ...

The pterosaurs studied by the team belonged to ... Rhamphorhynchus had a long tail with a kite-shaped tail vane filled with intersecting structures resembling ribs and spars in an airplane wing ...

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 ...

Researchers used traces of delicate tissues that survived for millions of years to solve the riddle of how the first pterosaurs were able to take flight. University of Edinburgh academics used new ...

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.

For example, in the early pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, baby specimens have teardrop-shaped tail vanes . In their teenage years the vane took a kite-like shape and in adulthood it resembles a ...