Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

Hatzegopteryx was one of the largest flying predators ever discovered, a gigantic azhdarchid pterosaur that stalked a prehistoric island ecosystem shortly before the extinction of the dinosaurs.

A species of flying reptile related to dinosaurs were able to evolve and take to the skies using aerodynamic features in their wings similar to modern planes, scientists discovered. Pterosaurs - known ...

Right off the I-75 at Exit 293 in Cartersville, Georgia, inside the Fossils Gallery of Tellus Science Museum, is a ferocious-looking skeleton of a reptile. This relative of modern alligators is ...

LONDON (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, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

76 million years ago, a young pterosaur might have had a very bad day. A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...

Flying, winged reptiles lived in Somerset 200 million years ago, new research has found. Kuehneosaurs resembled lizards, and were closely related to the ancestors of crocodilians and dinosaurs the ...

Pterosaurs - known as pterodactyls - are the closest relatives of dinosaurs and roamed the Earth for over 160 million years from around 200 million years ago, during most of the Mesozoic until the end ...