Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

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The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

Erin Wunderlich. Erin Wunderlich is a science writing intern at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She covers natural history research and collections news for ...

Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

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

A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...