China has emerged as a global hotspot for pterosaur research, with a series of discoveries that have advanced the study of ...

Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A new ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. [Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via ...

As it draws near, the primeval pterosaur transforms into an ordinary brown pelican. Keven Padian, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, stands on the beach gazing at the ...

That’s the common name given to the first pterosaur discovered in the 18th century. Scientists have since described more than 200 pterosaur species, but popular notions about pterosaurs—the ...

Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were likely more diverse in the Jurassic than the fossil record suggests.

“We are so excited to find and map these microscopic interlocking structures in pterosaur bones,” said Nathan Pili, the study’s lead author and a PhD student at The University of Manchester.

NAGASHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A fossil of a pterosaur, a flying reptile from about 100 million years ago, has been discovered in Kagoshima Prefecture for the first time, according to Nagashima ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found. Scientists from The University of ...