Paleontologists found the fossils of a pterosaur the size of a cat — and it’s not just cute as hell, it’s also an important cue for whether ancient birds outcompeted the smallest flying reptiles. This ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Flapping her arms to steer a pterosaur on a giant screen, Alee’a Cherry enthusiastically demonstrated the Grand Rapids Public Museum’s newest exhibit that includes motion-sensing ...

When paleontologist Alexander Kellner first saw the 35-square-foot block of sandstone filled with pterosaur fossils, he couldn’t believe his eyes. “I was just speechless,” he says. That was in 2015, ...

Footprints preserved in a 150 million-year-old pterosaur runway has provided the first direct evidence of how the flying dinosaurs landed. The runway is located in what is now southwestern France, and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Imagine an animal the size of a small airplane flying above your head. This is what you might have seen 70m years ago when giant pterosaurs roamed the skies. These flying reptiles that lived above the ...

The familiar name “pterodactyl” refers to just one genus of pterosaurs, of which there are thousands. Not quite birds, not quite dinosaurs, the winged prehistoric reptiles were the first animals to ...

Pterosaurs, the flying cousins of the dinosaurs, reached immense sizes in the late Cretaceous period (100-66 million years ago), some species with wingspans of perhaps more than ten metres. Their ...

I’m not a paleontologist, that should be obvious. However, these flying pterosaurs (they are not dinosaurs) are not just bigger versions of your backyard birds. No, they are huge. If there is one ...