Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

The pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight. The species evolved to form enormous wingspans reaching ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

Researchers suggest that studying the biological designs of prehistoric creatures could advance materials science.

This vs That! Let's test the crew on their reptile knowledge.

A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, either in a deadly attack or a post-mortem scavenged snack.

Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.

Invasive species are rapidly spreading across the U.S., disrupting native ecosystems and endangering wildlife. From ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...