Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

The new type of pterosaur, named Eotephradactylus mcintireae, was identified by a Smithsonian-led research team, according to ...

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 ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.

Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, quarrying a bonebed in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park in ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...

Photo by Ben Kligman A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now been identified as a new species.