Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously thought. Structures in the bones of these giant reptiles suggest the largest ones ...

A new study published in Current Biology offers a dramatic reinterpretation of one of the world’s most famous fossil sites. The limestone quarries of Solnhofen, Germany - which yielded the iconic ...

Baby pterodactyls apparently flew within days of hatching – but some broke their wings in rough storms that sent them crashing into a lagoon where they drowned. Very young pterodactyls had wing ...

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 ...