In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down when pterosaurs adapted to live on the ground. These awe-inspiring flying ...

Pterosaurs, the world’s oldest flying reptiles, once flew in Australia’s skies as far back as 107 million years ago, according to a study published Wednesday. Palaeontologists came to that conclusion ...

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists expected. New fossil reconstructions show that these ancient reptiles relied ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) --Scientists have given a name to one of the largest animals to ever take to the skies. Cryodrakon boreas, a member of the Azhdarchid group of pterosaurs, boasted a wingspan of nearly ...

Originally unearthed in the 1980s, two bones dating to 107 million years ago were recently confirmed as the oldest pterosaur fossils ever found in Australia. In a study published last week in ...

When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were ...

Artist’s impression of a pterosaur with a fish in its mouth. Fossils of one have sometimes been mistaken for the other. Warpaint/Shutterstock Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who ...