Pterosaur wings were built from soft tissue and membrane, none of which survives in the fossil record. A new study reveals ...

Scientists studying a 113-million-year-old pterosaur fossil from Brazil uncovered steroid biomarkers preserved inside the ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.

An international team led by Curtin University analyzed a 113-million-year-old pterosaur wing bone from Brazil, preserved in ...

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The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, contributing significantly to knowledge of the Cretaceous period. In particular, ...

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight shows how the reptiles might have appeared in Jurassic skies. Gabriel Ugueto During the Jurassic period, sharp-toothed flying reptiles with the ...

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Pterosaurs, the world’s oldest flying reptiles, once flew in Australia’s skies as far back as 107 million years ago, according to a study published Wednesday. Palaeontologists came to that conclusion ...

In 2013, a police raid at Santos Harbor in Brazil recovered about 3,000 smuggled fossils, including the most intact specimen of a type of big-headed pterosaur ever found. A new analysis of the fossil ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a pterosaur ...