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 links on ...

The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...

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, ...

A newly identified species of pterosaur has provided critical insights into the evolutionary changes that shaped these ancient flying reptiles, bridging the gap between early species and their larger, ...

[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 ...

A new species of pterosaur was discovered from a period and location that came as a "complete surprise" to the team of paleontologists. The remains of the pterosaur were found on the Isle of Skye—an ...

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 ...

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during the middle of the Jurassic period and even shared environments with dinosaurs ...

For millions of years, gigantic flying reptiles with 36-ft. wingspans, believed to be the largest creatures ever to take to the air, soared on the warm thermal updrafts above the badlands of West ...

The first pterosaurs took flight during the age of dinosaurs thanks to a sail-like tensioning system, a new study has found.