The bones of Caiuajara dobruskii await study at a museum in Brazil. A surge of fossil finds has upended scientists’ views of pterosaurs. Says one expert: “They aren’t the animals we thought ...

Paleontologists in southern Brazil have unearthed the fossilized ... and likely later evolved into pterosaurs, the earliest vertebrates to be able to fly. It was the shape of the reptile’s ...

People had the idea that pterosaurs could glide, but they couldn't flap their wings," explains Alexander Kellner, a Brazilian paleontologist. "We thought they couldn't take off from the ground." ...

Paleontologist talks about pterosaurs—the first flying reptiles, collaborations with the Chinese, and the difficulties of doing research in his field A naturalized Brazilian since 1997, Alex Kellner, ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...