Kevin Padian is in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. Read the paper: Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge ...

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.

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 ...

Artist’s impression of a pterosaur with a fish in its mouth. Fossils of one have sometimes been mistaken for the other. Warpaint/Shutterstock Georges Cuvier, the 19th-century French anatomist who ...