Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap […] The pterosaurs that flew across prehistoric skies while dinosaurs walked the Earth came in all shapes and sizes.

The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus ... D.M. Martill et al. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany.

Its skull and other bones were found in a fossil-rich region of ... producing a combined total of more than 50 new pterosaur species—almost a quarter of all known pterosaurs.

Footprints over 160 million years old show that several pterosaur species walked on land. These prints match different flying ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to ...

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

Biologists have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucat n Peninsula. The ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

A new mammal species discovered in Mongolia reveals surprising insights into ancient inland ecosystems and the dietary habits ...