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 ...