In northeastern Brazil, a fossil long stored in a museum revealed a new pterosaur species preserved inside a regurgitalite—fossilized vomit from a prehistoric predator.

[Related: We still don’t know how animals evolved to fly.] “Pterosaurs were the earliest and largest vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but they are the only major volant group that has gone ...

Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown in the background of this artist's illustration) ate the filter-feeding pterosaur Barikibu waridza, and then puked up its meal, which later ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on ...

There's more that we don't know about dinosaurs than things that we do, but we're still discovering new things about how they ...

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

(CNN) — Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study.

A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced. A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced by ...

Paleontologist Brian Pickles was wrapping up a field course in Alberta, Canada, when he came across a curious little fossil in Dinosaur Provincial Park. BRIAN PICKLES: When we brought it back to do an ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor. By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something ...

76 million years ago, a young pterosaur might have had a very bad day. A bite hole in a rare neck bone fossil discovered in Canada suggests a crocodile-like predator chomped on the flying reptile, ...

When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were ...