They were the largest flying animals that ever lived. With brilliant crests and wingspans the size of small airplanes, pterosaurs were neither dinosaur nor bird but an incredible order of their very ...

The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, ...

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 ...

New research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur, was a complete hunter -- able to swoop down and pick up fish. University of Alberta-led research reveals that Microraptor, a small ...

In the dinosaur world, raptors have a reputation for being ferocious, fast, and having sharp claws to slash open their prey. A new fossil unearthed in China confirms that some raptors could not only ...

Apparently there were even more dinosaurs flying the fearsome skies. “Scientists have discovered three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara 100 [million] years ago,” according to ...

As you know, July is National Dinosaur Month, and, to celebrate, we invited Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics to participate in a Cartoon-Off. Rules: Draw three dinosaur-themed single-panel cartoons in ...

Like the Wright Brothers, evolution didn't get flight exactly right the first time. It takes experimentation to find the best design, and now palaeontologists have found one of nature's quirky side ...