Of more than 120 named species, the smallest pterosaur measured no bigger than a sparrow; the largest reached a wingspan of nearly 40 feet (12 meters), wider than an F-16 fighter. Until recently ...

For example, Nyctosaurus, an albatross-like marine pterosaur with a nine-foot-plus wingspan, had a glide ratio—the distance it could travel forward for every meter of drop—“well within the ...

As the largest pterosaur of the Jurassic period known to science, it’s expected to have had a wingspan over 2.5 meters (over ...

Based on the size of the pterosaur’s upper-arm bone, the team estimates the youngster had a wingspan of around 2 meters. Comparisons with the growth patterns of closely related pterosaurs ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of an unusual prehistoric event: a pterosaur fossil with crocodile bite marks. This ...

While early species typically had wingspans of about two metres, later pterosaurs evolved into enormous forms with wingspans reaching upwards of 10 metres. The size means they had to solve multiple ...

These “enigmatic winged dragons” were characterized by having a wingspan of up to two meters, explained the Chilean scientist Jhonatan Alarcon who led the studies of the pterosaur fossils.

The species is believed to be as large as Anhanguera, a pterosaur from the same period, which had a wingspan of about 4 to 5 meters. Utsunomiya, 51, has unearthed many fossilized species ...

Computed tomography (CT) scan of the skull of Anhanguera, a112-million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil. Our pterosaur collection contains approximately 1,000 specimens and casts, from isolated ...

The punctured vertebra is believed to have belonged to a young Azhdarchid pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of 6ft 7in (2m). Adults of this species would have been as tall as a giraffe ...

"Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur clade from the Yanliao Biota [the fossil assemblage preserved in northeastern China from the Middle to Late Jurassic which can traced back from 174.1 ...