A Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North America

North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.

North America's oldest pterosaur, a winged reptile, discovered in ...

North America’s Oldest Pterosaur And Turtle Fossils Found In Arizona’s Petrified Forest

The pterosaur jawbone is just one of more than a thousand newly reported discoveries from the site, including one of the world’s oldest turtle shells.

'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America — and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder'

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America.

North America's oldest known pterosaur, a flying reptile the size of a "small seagull," discovered in Arizona, researchers say

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

A Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North America

Fossil surprises abound in new research that unearths the history of the Triassic Period