A new museum in a 17th-century canal house brings together fantastical taxidermy and natural history objects in an eclectic ...

Nestled in the vibrant Mission District at 824 Valencia Street, Paxton Gate has been luring the curious, the macabre-minded, and the botanically obsessed through its doors for decades.

Researchers have discovered a new species of pterosaur - a winged reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs 200 million years ...

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.

The fossilized remains of the "seagull-sized" pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. The post ...

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...