The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution ...

Recently, a new species, named Melkamter pateko, has been unearthed in the Chubut province of Argentina. Interestingly, this ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...

Long before birds fluttered their wings and took their maiden flight, it was pterosaurs - the distant cousins of birds - that ...

The pterosaurs or flying reptiles. SNSB scientists have now identified a new species that shows that the origin of the most ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...

A newly identified species of pterosaur has provided critical insights into the evolutionary changes that shaped these ancient flying reptiles, bridging the gap between early species and their larger, ...

A newly identified species of pterosaur has provided critical insights into the evolutionary changes that shaped these ancient flying reptiles, bridging the gap between early species and their ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap from a smaller to larger wingspan size and other physical changes. Skiphosoura bavarica is described in a study published ...

Pterosaurs ranged in size from small birds to 33-foot-wingspan beasts, and these two mismatched branches were separated by millions of years. Now, researchers examining pterosaur fossils discovered in ...

Take-off is a vital part of powered flight which likely constrains the size of birds, yet extinct pterosaurs are known to ...

Paleontologists from China and Brazil inspect a pterosaur fossil site in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2017. [Photo provided to CHINA DAILY] Despite being nearly 20,000 kilometers ...