JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Upon finding this fossil, Pickles, of the University of Reading, sent it to a colleague who identified that it was the neck vertebra of a pterosaur. Pterosaurs were the ...

Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.

A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

Among the most significant mysteries of the end-Triassic extinction, however, is why dinosaurs and pterosaurs fared so much better than so many of their reptilian neighbors. At the end of the ...

Pterosaur tail vanes featured a tensioning system for stable flight Study reveals dual-purpose tails aided in flight and mate displays Fossil analysis shows intricate structures enhancing tail ...

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These vertebrates were pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Mesozoic era som 251-66 million years ago, swooping over the heads of dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were unlike any animal known today.

The pterosaurs we studied come from the same species, Rhamphorhynchus. Rhamphorhynchus was a moderately sized pterosaur , on par, if not a tad smaller than a modern albatross.

With various characters stretching to ridiculous proportions in both their height and width, identifying these characters just by a silhouette is truly an easy task. However, strangely enough ...