An international study led by Curtin University has revealed new insights into how an ancient flying reptile was preserved in ...

A 113-million-year-old pterosaur wing bone has been found in northeastern Brazil. The fossil, described in a study published ...

Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study. Pterosaurs ...

More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more ...

[Related: We still don’t know how animals evolved to fly.] “Pterosaurs were the earliest and largest vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but they are the only major volant group that has gone ...

Geochemical and advanced imaging analysis of this three-dimensional pterosaur specimen revealed a completely different ...

A new analysis of a 120-million-year-old fossil suggests at least one pterosaur species shimmered in iridescent greens and ...

A first-of-its-kind pterosaur fossil unearthed in China with its gut content intact has revealed what the dinosaur-era flying reptile ate, settling a long-standing debate about whether its diet was ...

Learn how bacteria, oxygen, and layers of minerals locked fragile molecules inside a Cretaceous pterosaur fossil from Brazil instead of destroying them. The bacteria that began consuming a pterosaur's ...

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