Bad news dragon riders: Your dragon can't take off. A new analysis of the largest of pterodactyls suggests they were too big and their muscles too weak to vault into the air and fly. Instead, they ...

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 ...

Imagine a giraffe, but with a 40-foot wingspan and a massive beak. That was the Quetzalcoatlus, a type of pterosaur that dominated the skies millions of years ago. Neither a bird nor a dinosaur, the ...

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 ...

The world's largest skeleton reconstruction of a pterosaur 'Quetzalcoatlus northropi ' is shown at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, July 17, 2008. The pterosaur skeleton of one of the largest ...

Starting Friday afternoon, visitors to the Witte Museum will be able to see a mounted skeleton of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a Texas pterosaur. The skeleton of the flying reptile, which once soared ...

A quetzalcoatlus is the largest animal to have ever flown, according to paleontologists. The creature had a wingspan 33 to 36 feet, stood at 16 to 18 feet tall and weighed 450 to 500 pounds. It was a ...