Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old ...

By Freda Kreier Around 76 million years ago, something took a bite out of a young pterosaur. Pterosaurs were large, flying reptiles that roamed our planet’s skies when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

The pterosaurs we studied come from the same species, Rhamphorhynchus. Rhamphorhynchus was a moderately sized pterosaur , on par, if not a tad smaller than a modern albatross.

Much of its outer wall is less than a credit card in thickness. “Most crocodilians feed at the surface of the water and are ambush predators, and many pterosaur species are thought to be tied to ...

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Upon finding this fossil, Pickles, of the University of Reading, sent it to a colleague who identified that it was the neck vertebra of a pterosaur. Pterosaurs were the ...

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Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously thought. Structures in the bones of these giant reptiles suggest the largest ...

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Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. “Bite traces help to document species interactions from this period,” Dr Brian Pick ...

These vertebrates were pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Mesozoic era som 251-66 million years ago, swooping over the heads of dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were unlike any animal known today.