Scientists have since described more than 200 pterosaur species, but popular notions about ... researcher Dave Martill proposes a “to do” list for this brief reconnaissance: (1) Find a ...

Of more than 120 named species, the smallest pterosaur ... was coined to describe the growing list of similar fossils. In 1873 a remarkable pterosaur specimen came to light that confirmed ...

A new species of pterosaur has been discovered on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The winged reptile, named Ceoptera evansae, lived between 168 to 166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic ...

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 ...

Some 80 million years before birds took flight, another group of creatures dominated the skies — the pterosaurs. These extraordinary reptiles were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight.

In fact, the largest animal that ever took flight — an iconic species discovered more than half a century ago but only recently described in great detail — was a pterosaur. Pterosaur fossils ...

Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the skies, with wingspans of over ten meters (on par with military aircraft like the Spitfire).

The punctured vertebra is believed to have belonged to a young Azhdarchid pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of 6ft 7in (2m). Adults of this species would have been as tall as a giraffe ...

26. A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in East Asia to have ever been found in adjacent layers of earth. The cylindrical pterosaur fossil, nicknamed “Satsuma ...