“Mrs. T” (for Mrs. Pterosaur) thus became the first pterosaur indisputably identified by sex. Because she lacked a head crest, she provided the first solid evidence that for some male ...

This toothless pterosaur had a rounded four-foot-long (1.2-meter-long) crest protruding from its skull like an exaggerated Mohawk haircut. Paleontologists can paint this vivid portrait of Araripe ...

Known for its distinguished toothless beak and crest, Pteranodon became the template image for pterosaurs in popular culture.

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 ...

Some grew bizarre crests atop their heads, while others sported mouths full of teeth that projected threateningly at various angles. “Some pterosaurs looked like creatures from your nightmares ...

This image shows sex-related features of Darwinopterus. The male (right) has a large head crest, but this is absent in the female (left). The coloring of the animals is very uncertain, but the ...

Two exceptionally well preserved fossils give a new picture of the pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs. Scientists believe the creatures may have had feathers ...

BANDO, Ibaraki Prefecture—A fossilized bone piece long hailed as coming from a pterosaur flying reptile is actually from a “suppon” softshell turtle, according to a re-examination that ...

Paleontologists have long debated whether pterosaurs could fly. An analysis of fossils from two separate species of the ...

A unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. Its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a ...

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 ...