I suppose we could try and get it from the parent, but they’re a flying carnivore the size of an F-16,” is Loomis’ snarky ...

They weren’t birds, but pterosaurs—-ancient flying reptiles of the archosaur clade, closely related to dinosaur relatives still alive today like crocodiles—and for over 150 million years ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

But wait, that imaginary scenario is technically inaccurate. As it turns out, there were no flying dinosaurs, only flying reptiles. This is a common misunderstanding, as the average person doesn't ...

But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

The picture emerging now shows animals that looked very much like modern birds, flying and diving and pecking in the shadow of the dinosaurs. A select few made it through the mass extinction ...

A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...

Pterosaurs were large, flying reptiles that roamed our planet’s skies when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Some species were giants. But even their large size didn’t keep them off the menu.

But soon, experts settled on the fact that pterosaurs were flying reptiles, distinct from dinosaurs. The first discovered species was named Pterodactylus antiquus, the genus name stemming from the ...

But with such a close relationship to the extinct dinosaurs, why did birds survive? The answer probably lies in a combination of things: their small size, the fact they can eat a lot of different ...