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

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 ...

follows years of analysis and modeling of how muscles interact with bones to create movement in other animals and is now being used to start answering the question of how the largest flying ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic Period. Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, ...

Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air ... But perhaps the biggest changes came with the evolution of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester used advanced X-ray imaging techniques to examine fossilised bones of the prehistoric flying reptile at the smallest scale, revealing hidden engineering ...

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