Key to the first bird’s flight was likely a set of never-before-seen feathers, called tertials, found on the upper arm of the ...

They weren’t birds, but pterosaurs—-ancient flying reptiles of the archosaur ... an asteroid impact and spelled the end of ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at Chicago’s Field Museum, tells the New York Times’ Asher Elbein.That’s because fossils ...

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during ...

than feet Pterosaurs were a group of flying reptiles which existed at the same time as the dinosaurs, but were evolutionarily distinct from them. By using 3D modelling, detailed analysis and ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

Their findings were published in an international scientific journal in March. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles distinct from dinosaurs.

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with ... fossil bird and it shows that all birds, including modern ones, evolved from dinosaurs. While the prehistoric ...