Pterosaurs and Archaeopteryx took to the skies, but there was trouble in this Jurassic paradise: Tropical storms would turn ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

The fossil was identified as a “tridimensional partial rostrum” fragment, or the part of an upper jaw close to the tip, or end, of a prehistoric animal, according to a study published Sept. 23 in the ...

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean – the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea – one day roughly 150 million years ago, ...