A groundbreaking discovery in Arizona’s Petrified Forest reveals North America’s oldest pterosaur.

The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus was the largest known flying animal that ever lived. The ancient reptile had a wingspan of up to 40 feet and had hollow bones to help it fly in the sky, according to ...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of ...

Life Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found A 170-million-year-old pterosaur found on the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland had a wingspan of about 2.5 ...

A pterosaur’s crest consists of skin stretched over slender bones. In the feathers of modern birds, there is a correlation between the shape of melanosomes -- granules of the pigment melanin ...

A pterosaur from the species Ningchengopterus Liuae, with a wingspan of around 6 inches, was probably only a few days old when it drowned in a lake in what is now Inner Mongolia.

Pterosaur wing bones had to cope with the strain of flight while remaining lightweight, which is why the hollow bones show different strengthening structures within their bone walls, said Michael ...

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 ...

A group of researchers has recently made an astounding discovery. Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists has uncovered remarkable details of a pterosaur's soft ...

After surveying over 100 pterosaur specimens, scientists picked four from the species Rhamphorhynchus, which often had diamond-shaped, kitelike tail vanes, for follow-up with laser-stimulated ...