This offered more evidence that pterosaurs could fly straight from birth. And for a baby pterosaur, flying wasn’t just a way to get around. It was a way to survive, the authors said.

Large pterosaurs may have been the frequent-flier champions of the dinosaur age, capable of soaring up to 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) at a stretch, scientists say (explore a prehistoric time ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021.

It was a new species. A complete lower jaw and a partial upper jaw of the pterosaur was unearthed. Pentland, A.H., Poropat, S.F., Duncan, R.J. et al. (2024) Scientific Reports ...

Pterosaurs evolved a muscular wing–body junction providing multifaceted flight performance benefits: Advanced aerodynamic smoothing, sophisticated wing root control, and wing force generation ...

Pterosaur fossils have been discovered in all corners of the globe since their first discovery in Kansas in the 1700s. Some of the most common species, like the Pteranodon, have had many fossil ...