The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...
About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, ruling prehistoric skies for millions of years. Fossils reveal an astonishing diversity of forms, yet much about their behavior and ...