考古学家们在苏格兰斯凯岛发现了一个新的翼龙物种。这种独特的飞行爬行动物生活在1.68 – 1.66亿年前。 This flying reptile soared over the heads of dinosaurs when Scotland was part of a sub-tropical island in the Middle Jurassic period. Scientists ...

A study led by the University of Leicester has linked fossilized tracks of flying reptiles to the specific animals that ...

Fossils find suggests that cat-sized reptile lived alongside birds and larger pterosaurs. When dinosaurs roamed Earth, pterosaurs ruled the skies. The largest of these ancient reptiles had ...

Languages: English, Spanish A new species of pterosaur was discovered from a period and location that came as a "complete surprise" to the team of paleontologists. The remains of the pterosaur ...

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Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists has uncovered remarkable details of a pterosaur's soft tissue. Despite an age of approximately 145–163 million years ...

Experts from the Perth-based Curtin University and Museums Victoria, in Melbourne, examined bones from two individuals, including a wing bone belonging to the first juvenile pterosaur ever ...

Part of the pterosaur family, the new species, Balaenognathus maeuseri, would have waded through the water and used its long toothed beak to catch shrimp 152 million years ago. The 480-odd teeth ...

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a pterosaur precursor, and this animal is so bizarre,” said Rodrigo Temp Müller, a paleontologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria ...

None might be as genetically modified as Distortus, but they’ve been created with many different mutations. Some, like the ...