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

The skies were empty for most of Earth’s history, but then light‑boned reptiles mastered powered flight roughly ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

Pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests.

From comparing many anatomical traits across different species, the researchers established that pterosaurs and lagerpetids shared many similarities including their skulls, skeletons and inner ears.

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...