Here’s how it works. Researchers in Argentina have unearthed the largest pterosaur species ever found in South America. Dubbed "dragon of death" by paleontologists, two giant flying reptiles ...

Scientists unearthed partial remains of a colossal pterosaur, called Thanatosdrakon ... In Greek, Thanatos means death and drakon means dragon, Ortiz David said. “Amaru was selected as the ...

The Dragon of Death or Thanatosdrakon amaru is a new species of pterosaur. As a bonus, it’s the biggest pterosaur researchers have ever discovered in South America. The Largest Ever South ...

In the icy badlands of Alberta, paleontologists have found a “frozen dragon”: a new genus of pterosaur that once soared over the heads of dinosaurs with a wingspan that stretched at least 16 feet.

The fearsome fliers, part of a family of pterosaurs named Azhdarchidae, get their name from azdarha, the Persian word for “dragon.” Unlike earlier pterosaurs, they had no teeth, and they ...

But pterosaur finds in Australia are exceedingly ... a combination of the Latin words for “iron” and “dragon.” Iron-rich fluids likely permeated the animal’s carcass after it died ...

The pterosaur, dubbed Ikrandraco avatar ("draco" means "dragon" in Latin), may have stored food in a throat pouch like a pelican does, the researchers said. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates ...

What they found was a skull of a pterosaur, a flying dinosaur that was Australia's largest flying reptile. “It’s the closest thing we have to a real-life dragon,” doctoral candidate Tim ...

A new species of pterosaur has been discovered, a flying reptile that once graced the skies of the Australian Outback around 105 million years ago. The imposing, dragon-like creature, Thapunngaka ...

Of course, Quetzalcoatlus was pretty light for its size—in the neighborhood of 200 pounds—meaning that those House of the Dragon stars look a little too massive to be airborne. Pterosaur bones ...