Tag: pterosaur

Scientists have discovered that the secrets to pterosaur success lie in the microscopic architecture of their bones.

It used its large and muscular tongue to swallow marine prey whole, like a giant pelican.

Meet the prehistoric flyers that ruled the skies long before birds.

Using feathers for thermoregulation and signaling may be hundreds of millions of years old.

The large head-crested pterosaur employed a terrestrial foraging style, similar to today's peacocks.

Small, dinosaur-like animals may have been the ancestors of the first flying vertebrates.

I mean, who hasn't this happened to, right?

At least some pterosaurs were covered by a diverse coat of different feather and fur-like structures,

Incredibly, this one lived in the desert, which is unheard of for a pterosaur.

What's with the long face?

They say don't put your eggs in one basket, but what about putting your eggs in the same bedrock?

Not all flying reptiles were big.

Artist impression of the newly discovered Ikrandraco avatar. Image: Scientific Reports Paleontologists have discovered a new pterosaur species in 120-million-year-old rocks ...

While taking a walk with her parents on U.K.'s Isle of Wight (map) in 2008, Daisy Morris, who was then ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...