This genus is known to be one of the largest flying animals ever discovered. Its discovery in the 1970s challenged our understanding of flight in prehistoric times. This article explores the ...

Scientists have celebrated a surprising discovery about pterosaurs - the largest flying animals to have ever lived. The ancient reptiles were once tiny tree-climbers but, over time, evolved to ...

Despite being one of the most widely dispersed clades of prehistoric reptiles, the paleoecology of pterosaurs is poorly ...

"Pterosaurs were just the coolest things that were ever in the air," says Padian ... they pushed the envelope as far as it could go for a flying animal." Like their cousins the dinosaurs ...

Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the skies ... evolve in the natural world. The first flying animals were insects similar to ...

WASHINGTON: US researchers said Monday they have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found ... flight in animals, but nonetheless ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter on Monday to announce that his aerospace manufacturing firm SpaceX will try to catch largest-ever flying object with robot chopsticks. "SpaceX will try ...