“Some pterosaurs looked like creatures from your nightmares,” says Brian Andres, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Sheffield in England. During their lengthy reign of the ...

Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers ...

Scientists were surprised to find a pterosaur from this period - they were thought to mostly live in China. The creature - called Ceoptera - is the second pterosaur found on Skye. Its name comes ...

In the 18th century, fossilized pterosaur wings were misidentified as the paddles of marine creatures and, in the 19th century, as the wings of giant flying marsupials. Today, scientists know that ...