The investigation into the 150-million-year-old deaths has overturned centuries-old beliefs about the remarkable Solnhofen ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even in the time of giants but paleontologists turned to some of the ...

“Pterosaurs had incredibly lightweight skeletons. Hollow, thin-walled bones are ideal for flight but terrible for fossilisation,” he said in a statement. “The odds of preserving one are already slim ...

Researchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years ...

University of Leicester scientists have identified two extraordinary new fossils - tiny prehistoric flying reptiles, ...

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...

A 150-million-year-old mystery which has stumped experts for years may have been solved, shedding light on how two ...

Two extraordinary fossils discovered by University of Leicester scientists are rewriting what we know about the lives—and ...

Two fossils found in Germany show very young pterodactyls with arm bones thought to have been broken in flight, probably ...

According to the researchers at the University of Leicester, the findings of the analysis revealed that baby pterosaur ...

A first-of-its-kind pterosaur fossil unearthed in China with its gut content intact has revealed what the dinosaur-era flying reptile ate, settling a long-standing debate about whether its diet was ...

With 23-foot wingspans and hefty bodies, the ancient airborne reptiles of the Jurassic Period might seem the unlikeliest of flying machines. In fact, as commonly depicted, these animals, called ...