People have actually claimed to have seen living pterosuars – just Google the word "ropen" – although those alleged sightings tend to be confined to far-flung places such as Papua New Guinea. That ...

Bad news dragon riders: Your dragon can't take off. A new analysis of the largest of pterodactyls suggests they were too big and their muscles too weak to vault into the air and fly. Instead, they ...

Paleontologists have discovered the largest pterosaur ever to rule the skies of the Jurassic period. The 170 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Scotland's Isle of Skye belongs to a creature (from a ...

The oldest known pterodactyl has been unearthed in China, pushing back the evolution of the ancient flying reptiles by five million years, a new study says. Scientists first discovered fragments of ...