At a remote bone bed in Arizona, researchers have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur, offering groundbreaking insights into the evolution of these ancient flying reptiles. What does this ...

Learn more about Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the oldest Late Triassic Pterosaur in North America that was about the size of sea gull.

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils dating back 209 million years—to the late Triassic period,—filling a gap in the ...

A flying reptile that hovered over dinosaurs at least 200 million years ago has been discovered. It’s a new species of ...

Scientists have identified a flying reptile species that lived around 209 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.

The large flying reptiles known as pterosaur preyed on primitive fish that would have hard scale armour covering them.

At a remote bone bed in Arizona, dense with fossils dating back around 209 million years, a Smithsonian-led team of ...

A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.