Although filter-feeding pterosaurs are known from later ages, this is the first strong evidence for them living as early as about 150 million years ago, says Qvarnström. Because skeletal fossils ...

Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously thought. Structures in the bones of these giant reptiles suggest the largest ...

As it draws near, the primeval pterosaur transforms into an ordinary brown pelican. Keven Padian, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, stands on the beach gazing at the ...

They uncovered a surprising level of variation similar to that seen among living birds. This discovery indicates that pterosaurs were not confined to a life in the skies but were also adapted to a ...

Most people respond to the word ‘pterosaurs’ with a puzzled expression, until you add, ‘like pterodactyls.’ That’s the common name given to the first pterosaur discovered in the 18th ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found. Scientists from The University of ...

SHENYANG, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a ...

NAGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A fossil of a pterosaur, a flying reptile from about 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Kagoshima Prefecture for the first time, according to Nagashima ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

"Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur clade from the Yanliao Biota [the fossil assemblage preserved in northeastern China from the Middle to Late Jurassic which can traced back from 174.1 ...

living environment, and global comparisons of pterosaurs, Wang said. This illustration drawn by Maurilio Oliveira shows a restored image of the Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. [Institute of ...

focusing on in-depth research into the evolution, lifestyle, living environment, and global comparisons of pterosaurs, Wang said. Enditem ...