“Pterosaur bones are very delicate – so finding fossils where another animal has clearly taken a bite is exceptionally uncommon. This specimen being a juvenile makes it even more rare,” the paper’s ...

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The fossil, examined under a microscope and with micro-CT scans, has a conical puncture a sixth of an inch (4 mm) wide that appears to be the bite mark of a crocodile.

The young pterosaur likely had a wingspan of about 6.5 feet, and if it had survived to adulthood, its wingspan could have reached up to 33 feet.

The bone was discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, during a course led by Dr Brian Pickles from the University of ...

A juvenile pterosaur fossil found in Canada shows a crocodile bite from 76 million years ago, offering rare evidence of predator-prey dynamics during the Cretaceous Period. This marks the first North ...

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

According to a new publication in the Journal of Paleontology, a juvenile pterosaur vertebrae fossil, commonly known as a ...

Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. “Bite traces help to document species interactions from this period,” Dr Brian Pick ...