A tiny, toothless pterodactyl with bat-like wings, bird-like claws and a sharp, pointy beak has just been identified from a remarkably well-preserved Chinese fossil, scientists say. The researchers, ...

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 ...

Pterodactyl is a Legendary pet and one of the six pets available in the Dinosaur Egg that was added to Grow a Garden as part of the Prehistoric Update on July 5, 2025. If you're hoping to add the ...

Paleontologists have discovered the largest pterosaur ever to rule the skies of the Jurassic period. The 170 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Scotland's Isle of Skye belongs to a creature (from a ...

Ancient flying reptiles known as pterosaurs were much more diverse than originally thought, according to new research by an international group of paleontologists — including scientists at the ...

Paul MacCready is a 60-year-old Pasadena father of three who has never let go of his childhood obsession–flight. At 12, he watched undaunted as his model airplanes took to the air and, occasionally, ...

The oldest known pterodactyl has been unearthed in China, pushing back the evolution of the ancient flying reptiles by five million years, a new study says. Scientists first discovered fragments of ...