They do not, however, stumble across any rattlesnakes, nor even the faintest whiff of a pterosaur. The femur of a giant dinosaur, perhaps an Alamosaurus, turns up, by way of consolation.

Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as ... Until recently most paleontologists would not have put pterosaurs in the same league as birds in terms of flying ability.

Fluorescent lights shine on skeletons belonging to four prehistoric creatures: an herbivore, a carnivore, a flying pterosaur and ... an archosauromorph—not a dinosaur or a crocodile but a ...

“As yet, we do not know of any ‘missing link ... in the same mass extinction that killed off non-avian dinosaurs. The oldest known pterosaur fossils date to about 219 million years ago ...

They shared the planet with T. rex and co. but the Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, as was once believed. These flying reptiles of the Triassic and Cretaceous periods – the first vertebrates to ...

including pterosaurs (the now-extinct flying reptiles) and modern crocodiles and their ancestors. These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs. Marine reptiles, ...

Paleontologists continue to discuss the possibility of their even earlier presence in the common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs (the first flying vertebrates with membranous wings ...

to talk about the upcoming exhibit Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. Storm Team 4’s meteorologist Liz McGiffin caught up with Joe Wood, Director of Education Interactions and ...