The pterosaur sweeps its large keen eyes over the water, pulls its wings inward to pick up speed ... with fossils and pointed out a fragile skeleton, which was no bigger than my hand.

“The mechanics of flight leaves an imprint on the skeleton,” says ... like eagles that fly with their wings in a fixed position. Bones of the smaller pterosaur, Inabtanin alarabia – a ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram ... the fourth phalanx of its wing finger is shorter than the first.

"Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur clade from the ... and the fourth phalanx of the wing finger is shorter than the first. "The fossil skeleton shows some fused postcranial bones, such ...

large pterosaurs that stayed on the wing across oceans for days at a time like albatrosses, and pterosaurs that stood in briny shallows and filter fed like pink flamingos. Among the most exciting ...

re-examined the fossil and determined that it is part of a foreleg in a wing or a hind leg of a pterosaur. “The discovery will provide a clue to the ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean around the mid ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

Anning discovered the first complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, another reptile that replaced ichthyosaurs as the sea’s top predators in the Jurassic period. That was followed by a pterosaur in ...