Large ‘tail vanes’ enabled pterosaurs to take to the air, scientists announce - A team led by palaeontologists at the ...

Pterosaurs had light bones to enable flight, and these have fossilized very poorly, so our record of these creatures is sparse. When we do find specimens with more than a bone or two, they’re ...

The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution.

A unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million ... from that time period that's more than just a single bone is really exciting," she says. The creature probably ...

Much more of the skeleton is evident in the excavated block The world's largest Jurassic pterosaur - a 170-million-year-old winged reptile - has been found protruding from the rocks of the Isle of ...

The bone is thought to have originally been hollow and light, back when the pterosaur was alive. The species is believed to be as large as Anhanguera, a pterosaur from the same period, which had a ...