The Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Japan announced on Tuesday that a fossil found nearly three decades ago in Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified as a previously unclassified genus and species of ...

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About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur in Australia. The fossilized remains of the flying reptile, which lived among the dinosaurs, were discovered in western Queensland.

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A fossil from a ...

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Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...

As a small mammal foraging around in the leafy undergrowth during the Jurassic period, you would always be on the lookout. Reptilian predators were everywhere during the age of the dinosaurs, but the ...