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 ...

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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 ...

You have seen the classic shape: long wings, a pointed beak, and a crest slicing the air above a prehistoric shoreline. It is ...

A rare, near-complete fossilized skeleton of a pterosaur was found in Scotland. It would have been the largest animal to fly 170 million years ago, with an 8-foot wingspan. The fossil changes our ...

Perhaps the evidence has been hidden in plain sight, our own bias preventing our eyes from seeing what stands before them. An investigation into the artifacts of the Bismarck heritage reveals many ...

The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists said ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs have invaded the San Antonio River Walk. Not real ones of course, but artificial monsters, the result of animatronics and 3-D video animation. It’s all part of Dinosaur-Quest at Rivercenter ...

A group of paleontologists from the Brigham Young University has discovered the bones of previously unknown pterosaur specimen or what is more commonly known as the pterodactyls. The paleontologists ...

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 ...

If you can, try to imagine a pterodactyl combined with a monkey. It’s an absurd image, like Pterri from “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” crossed with King Kong. Absurd as it might seem, such a thing existed at ...