The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on ...

For millions of years, gigantic flying reptiles with 36-ft. wingspans, believed to be the largest creatures ever to take to the air, soared on the warm thermal updrafts above the badlands of West ...

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(Reuters) - Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying reptile - boasting a bony crest at the ...

The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...

Ancient tracks reveal that many pterosaurs were just as comfortable walking on the ground as they were flying through the skies during the age of dinosaurs, a new study finds. Pterosaurs, informally ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during the middle of the Jurassic period and even shared environments with dinosaurs ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

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• Flying pterosaurs were caring parents – but only larger species. • Research led by University College Cork finds parental care behaviour changed with evolution. • International team involved ...