From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...

Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Dinosaurs in the Triassic Period. It was around 240 million years ago that the first dinosaurs appear in the fossil record. These dinosaurs were small, bipedal creatures that would have darted across ...

Of the remnants of the past that have been unearthed throughout Montgomery County, most residents are understandably familiar ...

Early archosauromorphs resembled modern lizards and other reptiles. Some even looked like smaller versions of what would become dinosaurs. Prior to this study, researchers believed that during the ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

After surviving the Triassic shake-up, dinosaurs flourished in the Jurassic Period. One of the reasons for this was the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea into separate landmasses with ...

At the beginning of the Triassic period, dinosaurs were one of many lizards roaming the Earth. "Most of the animals in the ecosystem were the various relatives of crocodiles," Qvarnström says.