When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed ...

Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, though they lived around the same time. They also are different than the better-known pterodactyls, which were dinosaurs. Still, for many visitors, the two classes will ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor. By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something ...

You have seen the classic shape: long wings, a pointed beak, and a crest slicing the air above a prehistoric shoreline. It is easy to call that creature a dinosaur. It feels natural. But the animal ...

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles, not dinosaurs, and included some of the largest flying animals ever, like Hatzegopteryx and ...

Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago).

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...

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, ...