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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) will open its brand new exhibit, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, to the public Saturday at noon. The new exhibit will give ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Pterosaurs entered extinction status millions of years ago, but a new opportunity to learn about the creature’s history, and see a life-size replica, awaits beginning this weekend.

Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with wispy filaments paleontologists call pycnofibers, were the ...

Pterodactyls are extinct flying reptiles. They lived during the Mesozoic Era (252.2 million to 66 million years ago). Though they might look similar, they’re actually not dinosaurs. They’re related, ...

Ancient tracks reveal that many pterosaurs were just as comfortable walking on the ground as they were flying through the skies during the age of dinosaurs, a new study finds. Pterosaurs, informally ...

Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs, have been on a roll lately — or, rather, their fossils have, as a plethora of recent discoveries has helped flesh out the evolutionary ...

The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world’s best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists said ...

If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you are imagining is not a dinosaur, it’s from a group of flying ...

If you can, try to imagine a pterodactyl combined with a monkey. It’s an absurd image, like Pterri from “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” crossed with King Kong. Absurd as it might seem, such a thing existed at ...