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 ...

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

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

One pterosaur species gave itself quite the makeover as it grew older and larger. Scientists have spent more than a century wondering if a large and anatomically quirky flying reptile fossil ...

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 ...

The bone, which belonged to a young pterosaur, was unearthed in Canada in July 2023 by researchers from the University of Reading. A subsequent study released last month found that the bone ...

Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. “Bite traces help to document species interactions from this period,” Dr Brian Pick ...