In June 2024, paleontologists made an extraordinary discovery in Oxfordshire, UK—a gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil. This ...

Pterosaurs also devoted more muscle to the business of flying, and a larger proportion of their body weight, than do birds. Even their brains appear to have evolved for flight, with enlarged lobes ...

And it terms of size, they pushed the envelope as far as it could go for a flying animal." Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as one of evolution's great success stories.

This animation was made for Hold the World, a virtual reality experience set behind-the-scenes at the Museum. This skull belongs to a now-extinct group of flying reptiles called pterosaurs. It ...

Pterosaurs are the largest flying animals to have ever lived but in a “surprising twist”, scientists have have found their ability to walk on ground is what helped them grow to enormous sizes.

But soon, experts settled on the fact that pterosaurs were flying reptiles, distinct from dinosaurs. The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus, the genus name stemming from the ...

The pterosaurs, close relatives of dinosaurs ... It is wonderful that life in the Jurassic might make flying in the 21 st Century more efficient and safer.” With the aerospace industry constantly ...

Scientists working at a site on the mainland found 215 rare fossil eggs of pterosaurs, a type of flying reptile, that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The fossilised eggs were discovered at a ...

A behind the scenes look at the making of the documentary David Attenborough's Flying Monsters, which examines the prehistoric world of the pterosaurs. Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC ...