Reconstruction of a Late Triassic landscape (approximately 215 million years ago). A lagerpetid, a close relative of pterosaurs, is perched on a rock, observing pterosaurs flying overhead. Tübingen, ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the pioneers, taking to the skies more than ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...