In June 2024, paleontologists made an extraordinary discovery in Oxfordshire, UK—a gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil. This remarkable find has captivated the scientific community and the public alike ...

Before the discovery of D. sgiathanach, studies had suggested that pterosaurs didn’t start to become larger until the late Jurassic Period, between about 160 million and 145 million years ago.

But time was kind to the pterosaurs that died near Solnhofen because many were preserved in the sediments of a Jurassic lagoon. Wellnhofer slid open another drawer and gingerly removed a gull-size ...

(Spoiler alert: She lives.) For an update, turn to 2015’s Jurassic World, and you’ll find that pterosaurs are still plucking humans skyward, the sad lot of the perennially typecast.

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey shared the same watering holes on Skye 167 million years ago, say ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

BBC Inside Science — World’s largest Jurassic pterosaur found on Skye Exciting finds from the dinosaur age, and how human behaviour shapes climate predictions BBC Radio 4 ...

older pterosaurs that fell victim to the flood. The real Jurassic dinos: Is it a dinosaur or a bird? While all four of the outside researchers contacted for this story seemed genuinely wowed by ...

Other finds include the world's largest Jurassic pterosaur fossil, Dearc sgiathanach, a 170-million-year-old winged reptile, according to The National. Additionally, hundreds of dinosaur tracks ...

Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, according to a new study. Jurassic ...