Three flying reptiles from Earth's distant past glide above the gray Pacific, far beyond the rollers breaking on the shore of Point Reyes, California. They flap their wings slowly for a few beats ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

Frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, turtles, and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground ...

Pterosaurs took to the sky some 80 million years before birds and bats. During their 150-million-year reign from the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous periods, they conquered all continents ...

The archosaurs were a component of the diapsid lineage, which includes many successful Mesozoic groups such as the dinosaurs and birds, pterosaurs, crocodilians and turtles. By the Late Triassic there ...

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.

It was once thought that pterosaurs were quite restricted in size from the Triassic through to the Jurassic, before ...

The Triassic period also saw reptiles take to the skies. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates that evolved to fly. Most scientists believe the Triassic period ended when Pangaea started to break ...

This combo picture shows the image of the fossilized pterosaur Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov (above) and a skeleton diagram. [Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via ...