This is a common misunderstanding, as the average person doesn't know the difference between dinosaurs and pterosaurs, or the name experts use when referring to these flying creatures. Long before ...

Giant prehistoric flying reptiles took off by vaulting themselves into the air with their arms, U.S. and British researchers propose. The theory published this week in the journal PloS One ...

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 ...

The discovery of fossil remains on Hornby Island of a cat-sized pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile, is turning some ideas in paleontology on their heads. Sandy McLachlan, 29, now taking a ...

Prehistoric flying reptile had stones and plants in its stomach For millions of years before birds took to the skies, pterosaurs dominated the airspace as the first vertebrates to achieve powered ...

The scale bar represents 10 centimetres. ( (Victoria Arbour/University of Alberta)) A new species of prehistoric flying reptile has been identified from a fossil found on B.C.'s Hornby Island.

Fossil evidence discovered in southern Alberta suggests a crocodile-like creature bit a flying reptile 76 million years ago, according to a new study published Thursday in the Journal of ...

The reptile is believed to be one of the first predators to use their wings to hunt prey - flying through Earth's prehistoric skies before the evolution of birds.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

She was puzzled. It could have been a fish, or a dinosaur, or a marine reptile. The way in which the teeth were set so close together reminded her of piranha teeth.

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 ...