Expected to provide important clues on pterosaur evolution, the fossil is the first known member of a new genus.

A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously ...

A team of researchers re-examining a fossil found about 30 years ago in Kumamoto Prefecture concluded it is a new genus and ...

Footprints over 160 million years old show that several pterosaur species walked on land. These prints match different flying ...

Researchers studying pterosaur tracks have found that ancient flying reptiles became better adapted to life on land during ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur, or ...

Biologists have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucat n Peninsula. The ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

A new species was discovered as it bit down on a researchers hand in Papua New Guinea, study says. Screengrab from YouTube video shared by The Islanders Papua New Guinea The summaries below were ...

During the visit, researchers found unfamiliar-looking crabs, the study said. They took a closer look at the “distinctive” animals and realized they’d discovered a new species: Petrolisthes tanmayi, ...