The same goes for anybody who went for a plesiosaur: they weren't dinosaurs, and neither were their flying pals. “You may ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

It was once thought that pterosaurs were quite restricted in size from the Triassic through to the Jurassic, before supersizing in the Cretaceous alongside a diverse range of birds. Instead, Dearc ...

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that soared through the skies from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.

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 ...

Among the most significant mysteries of the end-Triassic extinction, however, is why dinosaurs and pterosaurs fared so much better than so many of their reptilian neighbors. At the end of the ...

A study published in the journal eLife unveiled new insights into the flight mechanisms of the first pterosaurs, shedding light on how these ancient reptiles took to the skies during the age of ...

Pterosaur tail vanes featured a tensioning system for stable flight Study reveals dual-purpose tails aided in flight and mate displays Fossil analysis shows intricate structures enhancing tail ...

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.