With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert, scientists have identified a new type of pterosaur (giant flying reptile or pterodactyl) that existed about 95 million years ago.

Fossils from a newly-discovered species of pterodactyl dinosaur have been discovered in Chaoyang County in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The fossils, named Sinopterus dongi, have been ...

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The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists … ...

COSI President and CEO Frederic Bertley recently shared his own love of dinosaurs, dating from his childhood. “My favorite cartoon was ‘The Flintstones’,” he said. “It was the coolest thing.

DINOSAUR hunters have been left ... Britain's first pterodactyl remains ... Among the deadly beasts which lived in the then Sahara rainforest 100 million years ago were bone ...

A Pterodactyl -- I once saw a fossil of the winged reptile in a Berlin museum and was taken by its beauty. And I feel it represents the cusp of when dinosaurs or reptiles from way back when were ...

A fossil of a pterodactyl, the earliest known flying vertebrate, shows the creatures had unique and complex wing fibers that enabled them to fly with the precision and control of birds ...

The fossil, found on the Isle of Skye, is of a near-complete pterosaur skeleton with an 8-foot wingspan, thought to have lived 170 million years ago.

A new dinosaur species discovered in China was named after the ‘Doraemon’ character Nobita because for many kids in China the cartoon is a “common memory”.