In an eat-or-be-eaten world, flight conveys a bevy of benefits. A creature that takes to the third dimension can more easily escape earthbound predators, dine off a much broader menu or drop down ...

They do not, however, stumble across any rattlesnakes, nor even the faintest whiff of a pterosaur. The femur of a giant dinosaur, perhaps an Alamosaurus, turns up, by way of consolation.

The pterosaurs that flew across prehistoric skies while dinosaurs walked the Earth came in all shapes and sizes. Some, like Cryodrakon boreas, boasted an enormous 32-feet wingspan, while other ...

Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers ...

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide above the gray Pacific, far beyond the rollers breaking on the shore of Point Reyes, California. They flap their wings slowly for a few beats ...

a pterosaur from the same period, which had a wingspan of about 4 to 5 meters. Utsunomiya, 51, has unearthed many fossilized species, including dinosaurs, and published the findings. In 2004 ...

older pterosaurs that fell victim to the flood. The real Jurassic dinos: Is it a dinosaur or a bird? While all four of the outside researchers contacted for this story seemed genuinely wowed by ...

A complete specimen reveals how pterosaurs evolved from early forms into the massive giants of later periods. The pterosaurs ...

An exceptionally preserved fossil fills in an enormous gap in the evolution of pterosaurs, the largest animals capable of ...

Revealed by a German fossil, the newly described species sheds light on questions that scientists have been puzzling over for ...