An artist's rendering of a newly described species of flying reptile named Kunpengopterus antipollicatus. The Jurassic-era pterosaur may be the earliest animal known to possess opposable thumbs.

Future Jurassic Park films could feature one weird new beast in the menagerie: a pterosaur nicknamed Monkeydactyl for its opposable thumbs. Monkeydactyl’s fossilized remains, unearthed in northeastern ...

Researchers found North America’s oldest known pterosaur. Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.