A groundbreaking discovery has just placed Japan on the map of ancient flying creatures. For the first time in history, ...

A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been from a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile. A research team made up ...

The Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Japan announced on Tuesday that a fossil found nearly three decades ago in Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified as a previously unclassified genus and species of ...

There were many other newly described species of dinosaur, including a pterosaur from the Isle ... A full list of the new species can be found here.

Researches on this new pterosaur fossil suggest that ... Yandangopterus orientalis in 1997, more than 40 species of pterosaur fossils have been found in western Liaoning and its surrounding ...

The new species had features from early and late Jurassic period pterosaurs, a study says. Spindler, Frederik (2024) Palaeontologia Electronica As a small mammal foraging around in the leafy ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021. Since then, ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021.