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  • Uktenadactylus

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    Uktenadactylus was a genus of pterosaur with a possible 25-30 foot wingspan which lived in North America and Europe during the early and middle Cretaceous Period 125-100 million years ago. In 1992, a man named Chris Wadleigh found the front… Read More ›

  • Wellnhopterus

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    Wellnhopterus was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the late Cretaceous Period 70-69 million years ago. On March 22-29, 1986, a paleontological excavation led by Dr. Wann Langston Jr. was underway at a place called Pterodactyl Ridge within the… Read More ›

  • Aetodactylus

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    Aetodactylus, meaning “eagle finger”, was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the middle Cretaceous Period 96 million years ago. In 2006, workers at a construction site at Joe Pool Lake in Mansfield, Texas found a fossilized lower jaw from… Read More ›

  • James Yates: New York’s 18th Century Serial Killer

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    “Foggy Winter Cabin”. Free-to-use AI-generated image, fromhttps://stockcake.com/i/foggy-winter-cabin_1338115_976017. December 1781. The rural village of Tomhannock, Rensselaer County, New York… In the middle of the night, there came a tremendous pounding on the door of the Yates house. When the aged couple… Read More ›

  • Alamodactylus

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    Alamodactylus was a pterosaur which lived in Texas during the late Cretaceous Period 90 million years ago. A handful of fossils of this animal were found within the Atco Formation, which contains rocks dating to the Coniacian and Santonian Stages… Read More ›

  • Pteranodon

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    Pteranodon, whose name means “winged and toothless”, was a pterosaur which inhabited the center of North America during the late Cretaceous Period 86-79 million years ago. Fossils of this iconic prehistoric flying reptile have been found in South Dakota, Kansas,… Read More ›

  • Quetzalcoatlus

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    Quetzalcoatlus was a massive pterosaur which lived in North America at the end of the Cretaceous Period 72-66 million years ago. Fossils of it were first discovered in 1971 within the Javelina Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas within… Read More ›

  • Alamosaurus

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    Introduction When one hears the word “dinosaur”, one often imagines the sauropods – the large long-necked long-tailed plant-eaters which came to dominate Earth’s landmasses during the Jurassic Period. The sauropods died out in North America at the end of the… Read More ›

  • Nannopterygius

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    Nannopterygius, meaning “tiny fin”, was a genus of ichthyosaur which lived around Europe from the late Jurassic to the early Cretaceous Period approximately 152-140 million years ago. There are currently six species assigned to this genus: Nannopterygius saveljeviensis. © Jason… Read More ›

  • Brachypterygius

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    Brachypterygius, meaning “short fin”, was an ichthyosaur which lived around England during the late Jurassic Period 155-150 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were found at Smallmouth Sands near the seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset, England within the rock… Read More ›