A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...

This ancient reptile’s jawbone was unearthed in Arizona in 2011 and was confirmed to be a new species with the aid of modern ...

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

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Jaw, wing bone, and tooth of Eotephradactylus mcintireae (209.2 Ma) reveal a floodplain ecosystem with fish, giant amphibians, and early turtles before the end-Triassic mass extinction.

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

“Although dinosaurs are found in contemporaneous rocks from Arizona and New Mexico, they were not part of this ecosystem that we are studying,” said paleontologist Ben Kligman of the Smithsonian ...

An artist's depiction of a landscape from 209 million years ago at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, based on fossils of plants and animals ...

A delicate jawbone unearthed in Arizona has revealed North America's oldest known pterosaur, a flying reptile no bigger than ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Arizona’s Petrified Forest reveals North America’s oldest pterosaur.