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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Pterosaurs ranged in size from small birds to 33-foot-wingspan beasts, and these two mismatched branches were separated by ...

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 ...