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.

Before there were birds pterosaurs ruled the skies, soaring above the dinosaurs below. But only recently has the secret of their flight been revealed.

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old ...

A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.

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 ...