A groundbreaking discovery has just placed Japan on the map of ancient flying creatures. For the first time in history, ...

An international team of researchers discovered a truly remarkable pterosaur from Japan, the first ever identified, changing ...

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.

A Brazilian team’s finding helps fill in the fossil record to explain how the flightless reptiles evolved in the dinosaur era. By Kate Golembiewski Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived ...

The latest discovery drastically improves the remarkably poor fossil record of Middle Jurassic pterosaurs, while providing important new insights into the diversity and evolutionary history of ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on ...

Subscribe to Salon's weekly newsletter The Vulgar Scientist. Well-preserved pterosaur fossils are difficult to find. These are not the only notable pterosaur discoveries in recent years.

A flying dragon with gigantic wings and fierce teeth is the stuff of myth, yet the prehistoric pterosaur is often compared to one. Now, scientists have confirmed that 107-million-year-old fossils ...

The switch from the early pterosaur forms to the pterodactyloids is known to have occurred during the Jurassic period (201.3 million to 145 million years ago). The earliest fossils previously ...