Artist Scott Pterodactyl’s eccentric 50-foot-tall tree house that rises above the backyard of a time-worn Treme mansion once was known mostly to New Orleans bohemian types and late-night party-goers — ...

Before the dinosaurs hit their stride, the Earth may have belonged to a different kind of reptile: the pterosaur. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur, the reptile family to ...

Most flying animals, like birds or bats, have to learn how to use their wings. But that may not have been the case for the pterodactyl, a new study suggests. Remarkably, the flying lizards — not a ...