Judging from the skulls of other fossils, scientists reason that many pterosaurs were gifted air-borne predators, built to feed on the wing. They darted after insects, dive-bombed for fish ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden network of microscopic canals inside of pterosaur wing bones that may inspire new ...

Embedded in limestone laid down as sediments in a lagoon about 167 million years ago, the well-preserved fossil lacks only parts of the skull, wings, hind limbs and tail, says Natalia Jagielska ...

A few years ago when Norell was helping prepare a pterosaur exhibit, he included a celebrated specimen called Dark Wing, on loan from the German retiree who prepared the flying reptile’s fossil ...

Nathan Pili, a PhD student, used advanced CT techniques to study pterosaur bones, which could lead to revolutionary new ...

Pterosaurs thus had hollow, lightweight wing bones similar to those of birds. Those bones also needed to be strong, though, to support the load of the tough, leathery wing membranes. That brings ...