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 ...

Some 80 million years before birds took flight, another group of creatures dominated the skies — the pterosaurs. These extraordinary reptiles were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight.

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

Now the mystery puzzling researchers - how winged reptiles called pterosaurs were able to get their air miles - has finally been solved. It's all thanks to the help of the latest laser technology.

The pterosaurs we studied come from the same species, Rhamphorhynchus. Rhamphorhynchus was a moderately sized pterosaur , on par, if not a tad smaller than a modern albatross.

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 ...

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 ...