Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. For paleontologists, Skiphosoura bavarica shows how these winged reptiles ...

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A fossil from a ...

As a small mammal foraging around in the leafy undergrowth during the Jurassic period, you would always be on the lookout. Reptilian predators were everywhere during the age of the dinosaurs, but the ...

Today, the wandering albatross holds the title of largest flying creature on the planet. The Antarctic traveler can reach wingspans of more than 12 feet across. But, they are dwarfed by their ...

A study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans Flying reptiles first came down from the trees in the mid-Jurassic Period, paving the way for ...

An artist’s impression of a tiny Pterodactylus hatchling struggling against a raging tropical storm, inspired by fossil discoveries. Artwork by Rudolf Hima. The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs ...

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, pterosaurs ...