A team of paleontologists has identified, on two pterosaur specimens, four types of feathers shared by dinosaurs and modern ...

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A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced. A new species of pterosaur from specimens found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, has been announced by ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

The pursuit of becoming a world-first fossil is one of dogged determination. The majority of life on Earth doesn’t get preserved, so you’ve got to die just right, bathed in just the right conditions.

Senator Lindsey Graham has intoduced legislation aimed at reducing energy costs and speeding up infrastructure repairs in the areas hit by natural disasters, in Lowcountry schools crack down on vaping ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur in Australia. The fossilized remains of the flying reptile, which lived among the dinosaurs, were discovered in western Queensland.

In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity to a long-standing question in palaeontology. For decades, researchers ...

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A fossil from a ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...