Learn more about Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the oldest Late Triassic Pterosaur in North America that was about the size of sea gull.

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.

Taken at face value, the fossil record implies that pterosaurs suddenly originated in the later part of the Triassic period (around 215 million years ago), close to the equator on the northern ...

Their fossilized remains are extraordinarily rare, and when it comes to the Triassic period of the prehistoric world, we’ve only found shoddy, dusty fragments of just 30 pterosaur specimens.

Details of the discovery are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. At about 209 million years old, this is now believed to be the earliest pterosaur to be found in ...

More The Triassic era came on the heels of Earth's biggest mass extinction 252 million years ago, and ended 51 million years later with another mass extinction that wiped out many of the major ...

A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile first discovered over 100 years ago in the north east of Scotland has revealed it to be a close relative of the species that would become pterosaurs ...

Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon. PeerJ, 2022; 10: e13276 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13276 ...

A new fossil is allowing scientists to get their claws into the tricky topic of Triassic evolution. While dinosaurs tend to grab the spotlight, there were a variety of smaller animals that lived ...

ABOVE: Reconstruction of one of the pterosaur fossils YUAN ZHANG/NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION Scientists have announced the discovery of feathers in pterosaurs today (December 17) in Nature Ecology & ...

Scientists have inferred from analysing a combination of fossil distributions, rock features and climate simulations that pterosaurs lived in areas that were warm but not scorching. The rainfall would ...