Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus ... D.M. Martill et al. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany.

Its skull and other bones were found in a fossil-rich region of ... producing a combined total of more than 50 new pterosaur species—almost a quarter of all known pterosaurs.

Footprints over 160 million years old show that several pterosaur species walked on land. These prints match different flying ...

Mountains of Kazakhstan in the 1960s when zoologist A.G. Sharov discovered fossils of an unknown species with well-preserved hairlike fibers. He named the new pterosaur Sordes pilosus, or "hairy ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.