Learn more about the animals you thought were dinosaurs, and the animal we thought wasn't a dinosaur, but actually is.

It can be fun to imagine what it was like when dinosaurs were alive on Earth, lurking under the water, defending their territories on land and soaring through the sky. But wait, that imaginary ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains of stomach content have been kept in Museu Câmara Cascudo at the ...

On a cold, barren mountaintop in southern Chile, Julia Clarke knelt to peer at the ground through a pair of ski goggles she wore against the wind and the high-latitude sun. Clarke, a tall, ...

The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, but pterosaurs—-ancient flying reptiles of the archosaur clade, closely ...

Ancient tracks reveal that many pterosaurs were just as comfortable walking on the ground as they were flying through the skies during the age of dinosaurs, a new study finds. Pterosaurs, informally ...

Regurgitalites — fossilized vomit — are extraordinarily rare. They require an improbable sequence of events. The expulsion ...

In a surprising scientific discovery, researchers have identified a new extinct flying reptile species inside fossilised dinosaur vomit. The remains, known as "regurgitalite," have been stored for ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

One close glimpse of a modern bird, especially around the eyes, and it may feel like you're looking into the ancient past, when massive creatures walked the Earth and soared across its skies. It's ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of pterosaur - a winged reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs 200 million years ago. Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...