Pterosaur fossils have been discovered in all corners of the globe since their first discovery in Kansas in the 1700s. Some of the most common species, like the Pteranodon, have had many fossil ...

In 2013, a police raid at Santos Harbor in Brazil recovered about 3,000 smuggled fossils, including the most intact specimen of a type of big-headed pterosaur ever found. A new analysis of the fossil ...

A team of paleontologists scrutinizing the feathers on the back of a fossilized pterosaur’s head have found evidence that these flying creatures had the genetic infrastructure for multicolored plumage ...

According to a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Thapunngaka shawi was located at the geological Toolebuc Formation near Richmond in North West Queensland. The authors noted ...

A team of Chinese and Brazilian scientists has discovered a collection of hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs — many of which retained their three-dimensional shape, and some of which even have tiny ...

A 2.5-meter wingspan pterosaur known as Dearc, and a smaller, crested pterosaur called Ceoptera. Credit must be given to the creator.

This four-foot-tall flying reptile lived about 115 million years ago in Brazil. Its recently discovered fossil is offering scientists a wealth of previously unknown information about the species.

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 ...

The way David Attenborough sees it, pterosaurs and 3-D documentaries were made for each other, even though they're separated by 65 million years. "You want to have something that moves not just in 2-D ...

Bite marks on the pterosaur bone match up with the teeth of two prehistoric fish: a Saurodon (pictured here) and a Squalicorax. Palaios Prehistoric sharks were formidable foes. With their serrated ...

The fearsome, long-necked pterosaur had a wingspan measuring seven meters in length and what the team calls a “spear mouth.” According to a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, ...