Stunning Fossils Featured
February 24, 2015
...birds do, when disaster struck.” Fish catches fish-catching pterosaur, Germany: “The swooping pterosaur snatched a fish from the water, only to be caught by a much bigger fish leaping into...
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Dinosaur Variety was Extreme
November 8, 2014
Here are news stories about amazing dinosaurs, from dwarfs to giants, that lived in all kinds of habitats. (Note: This entry includes news about other extinct reptiles, not just dinosaurs.)...
Giant Reptiles Roamed the Earth, Water, and Sky
September 13, 2014
...it had trouble getting off the ground, even with hollow bones. Maybe a few feathers would have helped; none were reported. Big flyer: Another pterosaur species has been found that...
Extinct Reptiles Quickly Spread Over the Globe
August 16, 2014
On every continent, dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles thrived. Here are some recent amazing finds. Pterosaur graveyard: Get a load of the artwork on National Geographic: bizarre pterosaurs with butterfly-shaped...
Phenomenal Fossils
July 15, 2014
...extinct pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Mammoth CT scan: Two baby mammoths were scanned with computerized tomography for the first time, PhysOrg reported, yielding a “trove of insights” about internal details. Researchers...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Pterosaurs, Except Their Evolution
July 8, 2014
...where nearly all of the pterosaur fossils are found suggest that large storms caused the mass mortality, event deposits, and lagerstätte of the pterosaur population. Overall, the pterosaurs are well...
Pterodactyloid Progenitor Was Already Advanced
April 27, 2014
...powered airplane, where did the airplane come from? A similar question might be asked about Kryptodrakon progenitor, a new fossil pterodactyloid (the group including pterodactyls and pterosaurs) found in China....
Giant Pterosaurs Flew Over Paluxy Dinosaur Tracks
April 4, 2014
...Pterosaur Wonders While describing a new pterosaur exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, Wynne Parry, reporting for Live Science, describes some of the amazing facts of these flapping...
What Is the Evidence for Feathers Before Flight?
May 28, 2013
...to dinosaurs. Filaments called pycnofibers also covered some pterosaurs. Ornithischian dinosaurs, sauropod dinosaurs, and pterosaurs are on evolutionary branches that split from that of theropod dinosaurs and birds about 230...
Amazing Fossils: What Do They Mean?
October 13, 2011
...previous estimate,” making it one of the largest bipeds that ever lived. Someone get word to the animators for Terra Nova. Pterosaur tooth tales: Based on a piece of snout...
Big Birds Lived with Dinosaurs
August 11, 2011
...same time as the dinosaurs.” Not only that, it shows that large birds lived when pterosaurs flew, and possibly shared airspace. “I think the really interesting thing is that they’re...
Follow the Leader: Nature
June 21, 2011
...aircraft: The extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs had remarkable aerodynamics. Mimicking their hardware, researchers from University of Florida and Texas Tech have modeled a “pterosaur-inspired aircraft” that reduces turning...
Pterosaur Fuzz May Have Boosted Flying Finesse
August 5, 2009
Fibers on a well-preserved pterosaur from Mongolia are unlike anything seen before. Scientists wonder if it gave the animals better control in the air. National Geographic News said the hairlike...
Beautifully Engineered: Giant Pterosaur Compared to Aircraft
September 9, 2005
...a baby pterosaur growing into a large adult, a BBC News story says. Evidence suggests that pterosaurs were capable of flying soon after hatching. Some had wingspans up to 60...