The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

Pterosaurs also devoted more muscle to the business of flying, and a larger proportion of their body weight, than do birds. Even their brains appear to have evolved for flight, with enlarged lobes ...

Pterosaurs are the largest flying animals to have ever lived but in a “surprising twist”, scientists have have found their ability to walk on ground is what helped them grow to enormous sizes.

But soon, experts settled on the fact that pterosaurs were flying reptiles, distinct from dinosaurs. The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus, the genus name stemming from the ...

And it terms of size, they pushed the envelope as far as it could go for a flying animal." Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as one of evolution's great success stories.

Pterosaurs were unlike any animal known today. Imagine a flying squirrel hybridized with a lizard. All known members of this animal group order went extinct 66 million years ago and left no ...