Scientists have unearthed a bone belonging to a flying reptile which hunted 170 million years ago. The remains were ...

Some fossils preserve far more than bones, capturing the exact moments prehistoric animals suffered catastrophic and often ...

Famous dinosaur fossil hunter Mary Anning is here to quiz you on the T-rex, amazing fossils and even fossilised poo!

Spinosaurus shed salt via eye glands, rekindling aquatic lifestyle debate Skull grooves hint at eye salt glands in Moroccan ...

Pterodactyls weren't just huge flying reptiles — the creatures were as tiny as a small bird, according to a fossil found in China. The fossil shows the sparrow-sized pterodactyl was toothless, fed on ...

The Natural History Museum is inviting people to touch some poo in a new exhibition about the monsters of the Jurassic Oceans. It’s hundreds of millions old though, so you’re touching a stone. A pooy ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period. It was paradise for American retirees—until it became the center of a drug war ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions about the fossil, unearthed along with thousands of others during a ...