Scientists identify the oldest flying reptile in North America, discovered in Arizona and dating back 209 million years.

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

Along with the pterosaur were other new arrivals on the scene including ... “Although dinosaurs are found in contemporaneous rocks from Arizona and New Mexico, they were not part of this ecosystem ...

An artist's depiction of a landscape from 209 million years ago at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, based on fossils of plants and animals ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago.The jawbone of the ancient reptile was unearthed in Arizona ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Arizona’s Petrified Forest reveals North America’s oldest pterosaur.

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

The scientists were planning to investigate the processes that occur when a whale carcass falls to the sea floor. To simulate this, they dropped a cow carcass at 1,629 meters (5,344 feet) deep on a ...

Scientists have found a new species of pterosaur that lived 200 million years ago along with the dinosaurs. The fossilised ...

Scientists have identified a new species of pterosaur from a fossilised jawbone discovered deep in the Arizona desert. The ...