In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

The Natural History Museum of Utah will mark the 10th year of its DinoFest with a weekend focused on the creatures that ...

(Reuters) - Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout ...

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

In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

A team of paleontologists has identified, on two pterosaur specimens, four types of feathers shared by dinosaurs and modern birds. This discovery suggests that the ...

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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. When you purchase through links on ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired the ...