Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity ...

Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research shows that pterosaurs were indeed caring parents -- but only the larger species. Did the ...

Flying reptiles that once winged around England 110 million years ago are closely related to their contemporaries found in Brazil and elsewhere around the world, new research finds. The new study is ...

A college student has discovered a prehistoric flying reptile that lived around 200 million years ago in what is now the United Kingdom. Mike Cawthorne, a masters student at the University of Bristol ...

A hoard of fossilized pterosaur eggs discovered in China is helping scientists gain a rare insight into the extinct flying reptiles. Newly released research into over 200 eggs and 16 embryos from the ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms. While the bigger ...

LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The fossil remains of a species of flying reptile considered a close cousin of the dinosaur and believed to have roamed the earth tens of millions of years ago has been ...

The remains of a large flying reptile that roamed Earth's skies 100 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs have been uncovered by researchers. The prehistoric creature is a pterosaur, a ...

Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures ...

It can be fun to imagine what it was like when dinosaurs were alive on Earth, lurking under the water, defending their territories on land and soaring through the sky. But wait, that imaginary ...