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 ...

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 ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

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.

The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, but pterosaurs—-ancient flying reptiles of the archosaur clade ...

While the ancestors of the pterosaurs and pseudosuchians moved north ... “Finding them would revolutionise our understanding of Triassic ecosystems, and offer key insights into the evolutionary story ...

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

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 ...

Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission will send ISRO, Polish, and Hungarian astronauts to the ISS for the first time in history in ...

During the Late Triassic period, dinosaurs were only a ... These included the ancestors of crocodiles, known as pseudosuchians, and pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to develop powered flight.

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.