Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These creatures, contemporaries of the dinosaurs, ranged in wingspan from ...

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 flying reptile belonged to a group of early pterosaurs ... by scientists at the University of Chile. The Mexican dinosaur that may have sounded like an elephant Details of the discovery ...

Never come between a dad and a dinosaur fact. That’s what one father would say; he’s been left absolutely “disgusted” by what ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden network of microscopic canals inside of pterosaur wing bones that may inspire new ...

Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and modern crocodiles and their ancestors. These and many other types of ancient reptiles ...

including all feathered dinosaurs except the ornithuromorphs. O’Connor and other paleontologists are investigating why those birds survived when all other feathered reptiles vanished.

[Reuters] Argentine scientists discovered a new species of a huge flying reptile dubbed "The Dragon of Death" that lived 86 million years ago alongside dinosaurs, in a find shedding fresh insight ...

The island’s rocks are around 130 million years old. An enormous variety of fossils are hidden inside them, from bits of dinosaurs and flying reptiles to ammonites, crocodiles and Ice Age creatures, ...