The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions ...

In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

(CNN) – An avocado farmer found a fossil that turned out to be a new pterosaur species. Kevin Petersen, the curator of a fossil museum in Queensland, Australia, found the fossil in 2021. Since then, ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

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Researchers have unearthed the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America and named it the "ash-winged dawn goddess." The 209 million-year-old pterosaur was among a cache of more than 1,000 ...

For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions about the fossil, unearthed along with thousands of others during a ...