5. Pteranodon Pteranodon, which lived during the late Cretaceous period, was a flying reptile that lacked teeth and had a prominent cranial crest. They had large wingspans, supported by strong, hollow ...

Image credits: DmytroLeontyev #6 The Oldest Dinosaur That We Know Of Lived As Far Back As 237 Million Years Ago The earliest known dinosaur, a relatively small creature perhaps the size of a ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

And, unusually, it was preserved in three dimensions, while most pterosaurs tend to be crushed flat. Dr Hone said that it would have been about two metres in wingspan, similar to that of large ...

Since 1979, Dinosaur Provincial Park has provided paleontologists with troves of fossilized remains, mostly in the form of ...

Pterosaurs are the largest flying animals to have ever lived but in a “surprising twist”, scientists have have found their ability to walk on ground is what helped them grow to enormous sizes.

The fossilized remains of Pterosaurs or flying reptiles - who were wiped out nearly 120 million years ago from earth - have provided a slice of prehistoric life - revealing that these dinosaur-era ...