LAMBERT: The lives of pterosaurs are still pretty mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, their bones are actually quite delicate, and so fossils are rare. This find turned out to be a juvenile, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Unwin also said that in early pterosaurs, the hind limbs were connected by a membrane “which severely impeded walking and ...

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 ...

Yet pterosaur footprints suggest that those forelimbs weren’t helping propel the creature forward when it walked, he says. Instead, they appear to have been used for support only, like walking ...

The consensus is that, like other pterosaurs, Pteranodon was quadrupedal when on the ground, walking on all fours with its wings folded. Its activities on land were likely limited to nesting and ...

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 ...

Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to large sail-like “vanes” at the ends of their tails, palaeontologists have discovered. Researchers have long puzzled over how the winged reptiles – the ...

Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated incomplete bones to articulated skeletons on slabs. British pterosaurs are well represented in the collection ...