Over 166 million years after its time roaming the Earth, scientists announced the discovery of a winged dinosaur skeleton that was found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. In findings published in the ...

A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada’s ...

Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.

[Related: We still don’t know how animals evolved to fly.] “Pterosaurs were the earliest and largest vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but they are the only major volant group that has gone ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

If you think you know everything there is to know about dinosaurs, guess again. A new species has just been uncovered. The discovery of a dinosaur skeleton was located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

What’s 12 feet tall, 1,200 pounds and has a diet primarily comprised of fish and insects? A pterosaur. And until Sept. 17, guests at the Powerhouse Science Center can learn all about the flying ...

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When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were ...