Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period. Pictures of What Skin Cancer Looks Like Steven Spielberg says he collapsed on ...

Adults of this kind of pterosaur, whose scientific name means "cold dragon of the north wind", had wingspans of around 10 meters and stood as tall as a giraffe.

Pterosaur flight has a long history of baffling paleontologists. In the 18th century, fossilized pterosaur wings were misidentified as the paddles of marine creatures and, in the 19th century, as ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap from a smaller to larger wingspan size and other physical changes. Skiphosoura bavarica is described in a study published ...

Pterosaur wing bones had to cope with the strain of flight while remaining lightweight, which is why the hollow bones show different strengthening structures within their bone walls, said Michael ...

Two different large-bodied pterosaur species, including one that is new-to-science, indicate that some flew by flapping their wings, while others soared more like modern vultures.

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 ...

Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia. Scientific Reports, 2024; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60889-8 ...

UK Giant pterosaur fossil found in Oxfordshire quarry is nicknamed ‘Abfab’ The wing bone belonged to a flying reptile with a wingspan of around 12ft that lived during the Jurassic period.

The new pterosaur brings scientists closer to understanding early pterosaur evolution. They now suspect that pterosaurs flew in the skies for over 25 million years. During this time, pterosaurs would ...