One hundred and ten million years ago, a predator in what is now northeastern Brazil bit off more than it could chew. It ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

In 2013, a police raid at Santos Harbor in Brazil recovered about 3,000 smuggled fossils, including the most intact specimen of a type of big-headed pterosaur ever found. A new analysis of the fossil ...

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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 ...

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The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

A new Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered, Galgadraco zephyrius, revealing surprising links with ...

For millions of years, gigantic flying reptiles with 36-ft. wingspans, believed to be the largest creatures ever to take to the air, soared on the warm thermal updrafts above the badlands of West ...

• Flying pterosaurs were caring parents – but only larger species. • Research led by University College Cork finds parental care behaviour changed with evolution. • International team involved ...