Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

Newly identified Nipponopterus mifunensis reflects global collaboration and showcases Japan's rich prehistoric heritage. A ...

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

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

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

An exceptionally preserved fossil fills in an enormous gap in the evolution of pterosaurs, the largest animals capable of flight. Of all the major reptile orders of the age of dinosaurs ...

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.

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 ...