It can be fun to imagine what it was like when dinosaurs were alive on Earth, lurking under the water, defending their territories on land and soaring through the sky. But wait, that imaginary ...

An international exhibition in New York explores the fascinating world of prehistoric flying reptiles, the pterosaurs who ruled the skies when dinosaurs ruled the earth millions of years ago.

The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today, researchers have found. The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

A college student has discovered a prehistoric flying reptile that lived around 200 million years ago in what is now the United Kingdom. Mike Cawthorne, a masters student at the University of Bristol ...

(CN) — Pterosaur fossils are relatively rare. Fossils that contain more than mere fragments of their thin, fragile bones are even rarer. That makes the discovery of a 100 million-year-old pterosaur ...

An Australian avocado farmer found the fossilized remains of a pterosaur in the Australian outback that scientists now say is a new species of the prehistoric flying reptile that lived alongside the ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered direct evidence of what prehistoric flying reptiles, known as pterosaurs, actually ate. Two remarkable fossils dating back 182 million years have revealed ...

A species of flying reptile related to dinosaurs were able to evolve and take to the skies using aerodynamic features in their wings similar to modern planes, scientists discovered. Pterosaurs - known ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...