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A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...
Scientists identify the oldest flying reptile in North America, discovered in Arizona and dating back 209 million years.
Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.
From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...