The new type of pterosaur, named Eotephradactylus mcintireae, was identified by a Smithsonian-led research team, according to ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Jaw, wing bone, and tooth of Eotephradactylus mcintireae (209.2 Ma) reveal a floodplain ecosystem with fish, giant amphibians, and early turtles before the end-Triassic mass extinction.

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

The newly found fossils are 209 million years old and include at least 16 vertebrate species, seven of them previously unknown.

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers looked billions of years into the past to learn more about the potential ...

Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...

The pterosaur jawbone is just one of more than a thousand newly reported discoveries from the site, including one of the world’s oldest turtle shells.