Some scientists have depicted pterosaurs dragging themselves along the ground on their bellies. Others have imagined them walking upright on their hind legs like zombies, with their strangely ...

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. When you purchase through ...

Their endurance record is almost inconceivable compared with the span of humans, whose ancestors started walking upright less than four million years ago. Uncontested in the air, pterosaurs ...

A unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. Its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a ...

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 ...

The pterosaur fossils were first recognized as being from flying reptiles around 1800, but for most of that time there has been a vast gap in our knowledge of how they changed over their 160 ...

Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously ...

BANDO, Ibaraki Prefecture—A fossilized bone piece long hailed as coming from a pterosaur flying reptile is actually from a “suppon” softshell turtle, according to a re-examination that ...

NAGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A fossil of a pterosaur, a flying reptile from about 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Kagoshima Prefecture for the first time, according to Nagashima ...