Throughout history, every major culture has stories of reptilian monsters who threatened their livelihood. From the Egypt to India, and even the Sioux Nation, tales of these flying dinosaurs or winged ...

Throughout history, every major culture has stories of reptilian monsters who threatened their livelihood. From the Egypt to India, and even the Sioux Nation, tales of these flying dinosaurs or winged ...

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.

For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions about the fossil, unearthed along with thousands of others during a ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Smithsonian researchers, led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, unveiled the discovery of North America’s ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

(Image credit: Illustration by Brian Engh.) Researchers have unearthed the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America and named it the "ash-winged dawn goddess." The 209 million-year-old ...

I imagine way back when Gor was sitting in his cave, nice fire going, he was slicing off raw chunks of the meat with the knife he fashioned from knapping some obsidian, he was hungry, even though it ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor. By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something ...

Remains discovered in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur fossil, solving a mystery that has persisted for 200 years.. Credit: public domain CC0 Well-preserved remains found in ...