New evidence was discovered that suggests feathers started appearing on animals around 70 million years earlier than previously suspected. Two anurognathid pterosaurs were studied by a group of ...

Derek's love of games came at an early age when his parents first brought home the Nintendo Entertainment System. From then on, countless nights were spent hunting ducks, stomping turtles, exploring ...

As a cryptozoologist, Jonathan Whitcomb specializes in creatures that do not plausibly exist – including mythical beings such as yeti, bigfeet or – Whitcomb’s specialty – modern-day dinosaurs. As a ...

Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history -- the pterodactyl -- to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation ...

The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists said ...

Before the dinosaurs hit their stride, the Earth may have belonged to a different kind of reptile: the pterosaur. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur, the reptile family to ...

Grasshoppers you might see on the North Shore are small and tend to be brown or green in color. In Arizona, some of them could qualify as small pterodactyl dinosaurs! And, unlike their cousins in the ...

RALEIGH -- As a cryptozoologist, Jonathan Whitcomb specializes in creatures that do not plausibly exist -- including mythical beings such as yeti, bigfeet or -- Whitcomb's specialty -- modern-day ...