Two fossils found in China were covered in furlike pycnofibers and feathers. This is an Inside Science story. The extinct flying reptiles known as pterosaurs had plumage like both the feathers of ...

Think of pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that were distant cousins to the dinosaurs, and you may imagine a fearsome, leathery, winged creature. But new fossil evidence suggests at least some ...

Pterosaurs were into fuzz before dinosaurs. That’s true in a historical sense, at least. In 1831, over a decade before the word “dinosaur” had even been coined, the German paleontologist August ...