Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...

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 ...