A team of paleontologists has identified, on two pterosaur specimens, four types of feathers shared by dinosaurs and modern ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The pterosaurs that flew across prehistoric skies while dinosaurs ...

A flying relative of dinosaurs, Bakiribu waridza (“comb mouth” in the Kariri language) filtered crustaceans and other small organisms from rivers and lakes, where it was likely swallowed by a predator ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

Today, the wandering albatross holds the title of largest flying creature on the planet. The Antarctic traveler can reach wingspans of more than 12 feet across. But, they are dwarfed by their ...

The new species had features from early and late Jurassic period pterosaurs, a study says. Spindler, Frederik (2024) Palaeontologia Electronica As a small mammal foraging around in the leafy ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur in Australia. The fossilized remains of the flying reptile, which lived among the dinosaurs, were discovered in western Queensland.

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...