A tiny, toothless pterodactyl with bat-like wings, bird-like claws and a sharp, pointy beak has just been identified from a remarkably well-preserved Chinese fossil, scientists say. The researchers, ...

The latest in futuristic aircraft design borrows from the past: A 225-million-year-old pterodactyl may soon be reborn as a flying robot. Soaring above the ocean in the early part of the Cretaceous ...

Palaeontologists have just identified the world's first known landing runway for a pterosaur. This prehistoric flying reptile was so powerful that it needed several steps when landing to stop its ...

Bad news dragon riders: Your dragon can't take off. A new analysis of the largest of pterodactyls suggests they were too big and their muscles too weak to vault into the air and fly. Instead, they ...

About 210 million years ago, a strange "bird" with a pelican-like pouch, big fangs and a large, five-foot wingspan circled above the Utah desert, searching for its next meal. Now, after discovering ...

Long hours of driving across Indiana (four freaking times) initiate odd conversations. When you’ve seen the same highway for the thousandth mile, there ceases to be things to comment on, and you have ...

BOISE, Idaho – Video recently posted online shows a pterodactyl-like creature flying overhead in Idaho and has many buzzing about it on social media. The YouTube video showing what seems like a ...