According to Sankar Chatterjee, a professor of paleontology at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock (TTU), a 225-million-year-old pterodactyl might soon be reborn as a flying robot. The Tapejara ...

Most flying animals, like birds or bats, have to learn how to use their wings. But that may not have been the case for the pterodactyl, a new study suggests. Remarkably, the flying lizards — not a ...

A new study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur. Joined by its newly discovered relatives, Pterodactylus's 'family' now encompasses tiny flaplings, a host of ...

June 12 (UPI) --Pterodactyls, the flying reptiles that screeched across the Jurassic skies millions of years ago, were born ready to take to the skies immediately -- a characteristic unmatched in ...

LONDON, April 4 (UPI) -- A British zoologist has built a life-size, remote-control model of a pterodactyl. Cambridge University Professor Matthew Wilkinson created the model, which has a wingspan of ...

Pterodactyls, the fierce-looking flying reptiles that thrived in the days of dinosaurs–some with wingspans as wide as a Learjet–came equipped with flight instrumentation that should make 21st Century ...

Bad news dragon riders: Your dragon can't take off. A new analysis of the largest of pterodactyls suggests they were too big and their muscles too weak to vault into the air and fly. Instead, they ...

Popular images of the prehistoric world are filled with spiny stegosauri, placid brachiosaurs, and rampaging tyrannosaurus rex. But one image we may need to revise is that of pterodactyls flying ...

Just over a month after we first stumbled across PaulG Toys’ flying pterodactyl at Toy Fair 2015, the unique remote control toy is available for pre-order via a Kickstarter campaign. And early backers ...

Growth stages of Pterodactylus. From tiny ‘flaplings’ no larger than a sparrow, most known specimens represent ‘teenagers’ comparable in size to a pigeon. Fully grown individuals boasted impressive ...