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 ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

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.

I suppose we could try and get it from the parent, but they’re a flying carnivore the size of an F-16,” is Loomis’ snarky ...

At the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, the fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile that lived around 76 […] ...

But modern science is changing that, revealing unexpected connections in the tree of life — and opening our eyes to skies filled with modern feathered, flying reptiles.

This study also raises questions about the evolution of pterosaurs, extinct flying reptiles. Their evolutionary success, despite membranous wings similar to those of bats, remains a mystery.