In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists expected. New fossil reconstructions show that these ancient reptiles relied ...

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 ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago, pterosaurs ...

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