Scientists have confirmed pterosaur bones unearthed in southern Victoria more than 30 years ago are indeed the oldest ever found in Australia. The findings have been published in the journal ...

The bones were surprisingly complete ... making it more than twice as complete as the only other known partial pterosaur skeleton found in Australia.” The team uncovered lower jaws, part ...

"It looks like Australia's largest dinosaurs were all part of one big happy family," said Dr Scott Hocknull, one of the lead researchers. The bones were first found in 2007 on a family farm near ...

It is the first elaphrosaur bone ever to be found in Australia. The fossil was discovered ... it was thought to be from a flying reptile called a pterosaur. But when palaeontologists at Swinburne ...

(Credit: Tim Richards) (CN) — Scientists discovered the fossils of the largest flying reptile in Australia, a massive pterosaur ... discovery while examining a fossil of the pterosaur’s jaw that was ...

The adult male was found on November 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate southwest Australia — about 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) north of the icy waters off the ...

The bones found in Germany were so well preserved that researchers could see distinct morphological features that helped them identify the animal as a new species. The pterosaur had a “very ...

But details of their evolution and ability to fly have remained a mystery to scientists — until now: Virginia Tech researchers Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker have found pterosaurs ... and shape ...

In 2021 a former avocado farmer discovered the most complete pterosaur skeleton ever found in Australia – and new research shows it represents a previously unknown species.