Paleontologists have discovered that efficient ground mobility allowed ancient pterosaurs to evolve into giant sizes, ...

THE giant 270kg skull of a dinosaur who last roamed the planet 72million years ago has been unearthed in a bone-filled creek.

The prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs — but wasn't actually a dinosaur — is the largest flying animal known to exist. Zoom (way) in: The Quetzalcoatlus (pronounced ket-zel-co-WAT ...

Long before birds, pterosaurs were the first true flying vertebrates. While they are best known for their flight skills ...

Some flying dinosaurs flapped their wings while others ... Newly collected specimens of the already-known giant pterosaur, ...

Feathered dinosaurs challenge traditional ideas of ancient reptiles. Feathers served multiple roles, including insulation and ...

But dinosaurs are not pterosaurs or vice versa ... Pterosaurs, he told his questioner at that talk, “were giant flying murder heads.” On a busy street in downtown Jinzhou, a commercial ...

The picture emerging now shows animals that looked very much like modern birds, flying and diving and pecking in the shadow of the dinosaurs ... a 61-million-year-old giant penguin found recently ...

Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended ...

The culprit was a sturgeon, a massive, dinosaur-like, rare fish that has suddenly been spotted all over the North Shore this ...

They evolved diverse shapes and sizes, from the fearsome giant Spinosaurus to the ... Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and ...