A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

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 ...

The fossil was found in a remote bonebed packed with prehistoric treasures. Led by Smithsonian paleontologist Ben Kligman, the team uncovered more than 1,200 fossils from a time when strange ...

The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...

The species name references its discoverer, McIntire, who retired last year. The bonebed is the latest research collaboration between the National Museum of Natural History and Petrified Forest ...

Ben Kligman, a postdoctoral fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, quarrying a bone bed in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park in 2025 Ben Kligman ...

Another 1,300-Year-Old Village Discovered in Arizona Finds in Petrified Forest National Park date between 200 A.D. and 700 A.D. By ABC News October 6, 2014, 6:03 AM ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the ...