The dinosaur, discovered in China’s Liaoning province, lived about 125 million years ago. Some of its tail feathers were nearly a foot long – the longest ever seen on a flying dinosaur ...

A team of paleontologists and researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what may be the ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around ...

Rare fossil of flying dinosaur reveals 76-million-year-old crocodile-like bite. Scientists said the young pterosaur would have had a wingspan of more than 6 feet . Julia Musto. in New York.

WASHINGTON — The Jurassic version of jumbo jets — huge flying creatures weighing hundreds of pounds — is a mystery of dinosaur-era flight: How did something so big get off the ground?

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not. The ...

Scientists have unearthed in the badlands of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park the fossilized neck bone of a young ...

Pterosaurs—fuzzy, flying reptiles that were related to dinosaurs—reigned over the skies more than 50 million years before Archaeopteryx, so it’s not as if Earth weren’t already full of ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

Both pterosaurs and dinosaurs are distinct groups that shared a common ancestor, and so to call a pterosaur a dinosaur is to ignore this major divergence in the evolution of both groups.

A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.. The ...