Scientists uncover the first air pockets in Alvarezsaurid, revealing new clues about ancient bird-like traits.

Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These creatures, contemporaries of the dinosaurs, ranged in wingspan from ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

But soon, experts settled on the fact that pterosaurs were flying reptiles, distinct from dinosaurs. The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus, the genus name stemming from the ...

The Jurassic World franchise has only scratched the surface of prehistoric dinosaurs to showcase, as they come in many sizes, ...

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide ... Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as one of evolution's great success stories. They first appeared during the ...

Newly discovered dinosaur footprints, some previously overlooked, show meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs milled around ...

This animal is Anhanguera, one of the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. While its skull is in a display case in the Museum, thanks to virtual reality, for the first time ever we can ...

A giant flying reptile the size of a plane may have been ... researchers now believe it was a fierce carnivore that preyed on dinosaurs and other animals in Romania during the Cretaceous period.

Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and modern crocodiles and their ancestors. These and many other types of ancient reptiles ...

It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - ...

Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T. rex. Pterodactyls are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as the ...