Artist’s interpretation of ‘Quetzalcoatlus northropi’ wading in the water (James Kuether) Scientists have decoded the mystery of how a giant dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago learned to fly.

HOUSTON – The scene at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences Friday (Jan. 14) was a model enthusiast's dream. Working in front of a crowd of visitors, a museum crew pieced together a fossil replica ...

Explore the flight of Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the giant pterosaur that soared the Cretaceous skies in search of fish. The largest creature ever to fly was Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Cessna-size ...

Quetzalcoatlus, with its 40-foot wingspan, is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary animals to have ever lived. The creature was capable of flight, but how it managed to launch itself into the air ...

CALGARY, Alberta — The fossilized remains of two pterosaurs — winged reptiles that flew sky high during the dinosaur age — suggest that the soaring truck- and plane-size beasts were closely related to ...

With an 11–12-metre wingspan — comparable to that of a small plane — the winged reptile Quetzalcoatlus northropi must have cast a fearsome shadow as it flew above what is now Texas, 70 million years ...

In the late Cretaceous period, just before the demise of the dinosaurs, there lived reptiles as tall as a giraffe with wings as wide as a small airplane. They must have looked terrifying as they ...

The creature, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, is an anatomical mash-up, with a neck like a giraffe, a beak like a stork and the on-ground gait of - wait for it - a vampire bat. It lived at the end of the ...