In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago ...

Michael Habib has worked on a prototype folding wing system based on pterosaur flight through a Nasa-funded university project. David Hone and Liz Martin-Silverstone do not work for, consult, own ...

More information: Xuanyu Zhou et al, Reassessment of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen from the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan, Cretaceous Research (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106046 ...

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The “Dinos in the Desert” exhibit fills the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum with 10 different dinosaur and pterosaur installations spread throughout the museum grounds. Until April 27, life-size ...

A new analysis of pterosaur bones, however, suggests that their microstructure could inspire lighter, stronger aircraft materials. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived throughout the world ...

News Release 23-Jan-2025 Rare pterosaur fossil reveals crocodilian bite 76m years ago Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Reading ...

Paleontologists have discovered a well-preserved and unusually large pterosaur fossil in southern Germany. They say it offers important information as to how the now-extinct flying reptiles evolved.

But pterosaurs had massive wingspans that could reach 16.4 to 39.3 feet (5 to 12 meters). “They represent the largest animals with the capacity to fly,” Rosenbach said of the extinct reptiles.

The fossils, which belong to pterosaur species from the azhdarchoid family and date back to at least 66-million-years-ago, were preserved within two different sites in Afro-Arabia. The research ...