with the double meaning of “winged reptile” and “reptile from Skye”. As the largest pterosaur of the Jurassic period known to science, it’s expected to have had a wingspan over 2.5 ...

a paleontologist at Humboldt University's Museum of Natural History in Berlin. Warm-bloodedness would have given pterosaurs the endurance to power their muscles for long periods of time.

That reveals a wider distribution tens of millions of years earlier in pterosaur history than was previously presumed, Andres’ team argues. And because the sandstone formed in upland areas far ...

NSM-PV 19892, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE, TOKYO Habib, who works at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, set out to reconsider pterosaur biomechanics, combining an ...

Photo: Courtesy of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A new ...

By Elizabeth Landau Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in size from pigeons to planes, and the first vertebrates ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden network of microscopic canals inside of pterosaur wing bones that may inspire new ...

A new analysis of pterosaur bones, however, suggests that their microstructure could inspire lighter, stronger aircraft materials. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived throughout the world ...

The pterosaurs, close relatives of dinosaurs ... Senior author of the study Professor Phil Manning, Professor of Natural History at The University of Manchester and Director of Science at the Natural ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...