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A groundbreaking discovery has just placed Japan on the map of ancient flying creatures. For the first time in history, ...

Now, a newly discovered pterosaur species is helping explain this leap from a smaller to larger wingspan size and other physical changes. Skiphosoura bavarica is described in a study published ...

There were many other newly described species of dinosaur, including a pterosaur from the Isle ... A full list of the new species can be found here.

A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been from a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile. A research team made up ...

Researches on this new pterosaur fossil suggest that ... Yandangopterus orientalis in 1997, more than 40 species of pterosaur fossils have been found in western Liaoning and its surrounding ...

The Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Japan announced on Tuesday that a fossil found nearly three decades ago in Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified as a previously unclassified genus and species of ...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of ...

An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of the ...