When was the last time a bird pooped on you? Apparently, you have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do of ...

New evidence was discovered that suggests feathers started appearing on animals around 70 million years earlier than previously suspected. Two anurognathid pterosaurs were studied by a group of ...

At a remote bone bed in Arizona, dense with fossils dating back around 209 million years, a Smithsonian-led team of researchers has discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, according to a ...

About 210 million years ago, a strange "bird" with a pelican-like pouch, big fangs and a large, five-foot wingspan circled above the Utah desert, searching for its next meal. Now, after discovering ...

Before the dinosaurs hit their stride, the Earth may have belonged to a different kind of reptile: the pterosaur. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur, the reptile family to ...

Scientists uncovered the fossil of an enormous flying pterosaur that lived 170 million years ago, the first of its kind. The findings push back our understanding of when these large animals were first ...

The fossil of a 170-million-year-old pterosaur was found during a recent dig in Scotland. Better known as a pterodactyl, it’s the largest preserved skeleton of a pterosaur specimen found from the ...

Most flying animals, like birds or bats, have to learn how to use their wings. But that may not have been the case for the pterodactyl, a new study suggests. Remarkably, the flying lizards — not a ...

The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United Kingdom. A fossil hunter recently discovered a peculiar shaped fragment of fossil bone ...

Pterosaurs ruled the air long before birds did, and over more than 100 million years they grew into everything from small ...