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.

A new Tyrannosaur species has been discovered in Mexico that challenges our understanding of tyrant dinosaur evolution and ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 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.