Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with wispy filaments paleontologists call pycnofibers, were the ...

A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals.

If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you are imagining is not a dinosaur, it’s from a group of flying ...

Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs, have been on a roll lately — or, rather, their fossils have, as a plethora of recent discoveries has helped flesh out the evolutionary ...

Birds, the last surviving dinosaurs, are warm-blooded. But scientists have long debated whether other dinosaurs were also warm-blooded like birds or were cold-blooded like reptiles. Now, in a new ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, ruling prehistoric skies for millions of years. Fossils reveal an astonishing diversity of forms, yet much about their behavior and ...

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Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Storm Team 4’s meteorologist Liz McGiffin met up with Joe Wood, director of education interactions and performances at COSI to talk about their traveling exhibit “Pterosaurs: ...

There is an iconic scene in “Jurassic Park” when a velociraptor’s breath fogs up a window as it searches for its prey. If the so-called “terrible lizards” (as “dinosauria” roughly translates to) were ...