Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

An "incredible" new fossil find has revealed the dramatic evolution of flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs. The complete specimen discovered in Germany finally shows how now extinct ...

Millions of years before modern birds evolved, their dinosaur ancestors were soaring through the air. Scientists are piecing together how these iconic reptiles took to the skies. Fossils reveal that ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic Period. Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, ...

Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide ... Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as one of evolution's great success stories. They first appeared during the ...

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 ...

These characteristics are seen more in modern flying birds and are not found in the older Archaeopteryx lithographica species, which more resembles reptiles and dinosaurs. Specimen number eight is the ...

including all feathered dinosaurs except the ornithuromorphs. O’Connor and other paleontologists are investigating why those birds survived when all other feathered reptiles vanished.

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.