Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

Pterosaurs combined flight, size, and physical strength in ways rarely seen in the animal kingdom. This video compares their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized baby pterosaurs and dynamic mitochondria reveal how storms shape life and survival across millions of years. (CREDIT: ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death 150 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot ...