Pterosaurs are often referenced as “flying dinosaurs,” though they’re just flying reptiles — cousins to dinosaurs. From the late Triassic period to the end of the Cretaceous period, Petrosaurs ...

The research has demonstrated this using palm trees as a model system. With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for the ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

Another large pterosaur was Coloborhynchus ... Hone's work primarily focuses on non-avian dinosaurs, especially the carnivorous theropods, and the flying pterosaurs. Hone has also published ...

Anhanguera had large eye sockets, suggesting it may have had very large ... Pterosaurs are one of the victims of this, often incorrectly being marketed as ‘flying dinosaurs’. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs ...

Pterosaurs are not actually dinosaurs, but rather flying reptiles. Paleontologists based their newest ... (But that didn’t prevent it from chowing down on large herbivores.) Thanks to this specimen’s ...

As it turns out, there were no flying dinosaurs, only flying reptiles ... Tapejara, from the early Cretaceous period, are notable for the large, sail-like crests on their heads. Adapted for soaring, ...

The world’s first flying dinosaurs stayed aloft with ... Tianyu Museum of Nature in China, home to a large collection of feathered dinosaurs and early birds. “Soft tissues are very rare ...