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 ...

About 210 million years ago, a strange "bird" with a pelican-like pouch, big fangs and a large, five-foot wingspan circled above the Utah desert, searching for its next meal. Now, after discovering ...

BOISE, Idaho – Video recently posted online shows a pterodactyl-like creature flying overhead in Idaho and has many buzzing about it on social media. The YouTube video showing what seems like a ...

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 ...

Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth's history -- the pterodactyl -- to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation ...

Before the dinosaurs hit their stride, the Earth may have belonged to a different kind of reptile: the pterosaur. Paleontologists have discovered a new species of pterosaur, the reptile family to ...