During the Late Cretaceous, winged prehistoric creatures called pterosaurs dominated the air. They were the first vertebrates to master flight. They were not dinosaurs but closely related.

Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were likely more diverse in the Jurassic than the fossil record suggests.

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 ...

Researchers have attempted to decode the flying style of ancient pterosaurs — the earliest vertebrates to develop powered ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. [Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via ...

SHENYANG, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown pterosaur species in Jianchang County, northeast China ...