World’s Largest Flying Animal – With a Wingspan Nearing 40 Feet – Leaped Aloft To Fly
With a wingspan nearing 40 feet, the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known animal to take to the sky. But known from only a…
Flying Reptile
Legendary Flying Reptile: Fleshing Out the Bones of Quetzalcoatlus, Earth’s Largest Flier Ever
70 million-year-old fossils reveal unique walking behavior of this huge, heron-like pterosaur. Look around any wetland today and you’re likely to see 3-foot-tall egrets or…
Police Raid Uncovers Fossil of Exceptional Flying Reptile From Brazil
Complete skeleton provides first look at entire body of Tupandactylus navigans. A fossil acquired in a police raid has turned out to be one of…
“Fearsome Dragon” Discovered That Soared Over Australian Outback
Australia’s largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-meter wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea…
The Original Story of Flight: Pterosaur Precursors Discovered That Fill Gap in Early Evolutionary History
Here’s the original story of flight. Sorry, Wright Brothers, but this story began way before your time — during the Age of the Dinosaurs. Pterosaurs…
Giant Lizards Learned to Fly Over Millions of Years – Pterosaurs Evolved Improved Flight Performance
Study uses new method to show that Pterosaurs became twice as good at flying over their existence. Pterodactyls and other related winged reptiles that lived…
Naked Prehistoric Monsters! Pterosaurs, Ancient Flying Reptiles, May Not Have Had Feathers at All
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers were also found on dinosaurs’…
Cretaceous Period Pterosaur Discovered in Northeast China
Paleontologists have discovered a new wildly snaggle-toothed skull in northeast China that belonged to previously unknown flying reptile. It was named Guidraco venator, which is…