Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized baby pterosaurs and dynamic mitochondria reveal how storms shape life and survival across millions of years. (CREDIT: ...

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A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

ISLE OF SKYE, SCOTLAND (WCIV) — A new species of pterosaur has been discovered from specimens found in Scotland, scientistsfrom the Natural History Museum, University of Bristol, University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021. Since then, ...

The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists expected. New fossil reconstructions show that these ancient reptiles relied ...

North America's oldest known pterosaur - a creature roughly the size of a modern-day gull - would have glided over the tropical forests and braided rivers of equatorial Pangea, likely dining on fish ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.

Scientists identified new structures in the tail vanes of the prehistoric flying reptiles. By Elizabeth Landau Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were ...