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 ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap […] The pterosaurs that flew across prehistoric skies while dinosaurs walked the Earth came in all shapes and sizes.

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.

A new Tyrannosaur species has been discovered in Mexico that challenges our understanding of tyrant dinosaur evolution 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 ...

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 ...

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.

The new species belongs to a group of pterosaurs called tapejarids from the Cretaceous period. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have discovered three new species of pterosaur that lived ...

A research team said the two fossilized species are some of the oldest in East Asia to have ever been found in adjacent layers of earth. The cylindrical pterosaur fossil, nicknamed “Satsuma ...