One of the first pterosaurs found in Brazil’s Araripe Basin is also one of its most mysterious.

Hongshanopterus was one of several pterosaurs that were terrestrial predators in an ancient Chinese forest.

The distinctive flat-fronted snout of this English pterosaur shows similarities to its closest relatives from Texas and Morocco.

Aralazhdarcho hunted near the shore of an ancient sea covering most of southern and western Europe.

Even though the only known specimen is incomplete and partially forged, Yixianopterus is one of the best-known lonchodectids.

Caelestiventus is the earliest known pterosaur from the United States.

This azhdarchid hunted in arid northern Africa in the final one million years of the reign of the pterosaurs.

Alamodactylus fished in seas that covered Texas 90 million years ago.

This pterosaur was found in the Alps, but lived around tropical lagoons in the Late Triassic.