Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during the middle of the Jurassic period and even shared environments with dinosaurs ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, ruling prehistoric skies for millions of years. Fossils ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. The complete specimen discovered in Germany finally shows how now extinct ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

Jurassic Park was founded on the belief that dinosaurs can roam the earth once again with a bit of prehistoric DNA. In the first movie, we saw the rise of the T. rex, velociraptors, Brachiosaurus, and ...

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, contributing significantly to knowledge of the Cretaceous period. In particular, ...

Researchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

Pterosaurs represent the earliest group of vertebrates with powered flight capability, originating in the Late Triassic and becoming extinct alongside non-avian dinosaurs by the end of the Cretaceous.