Pterosaur Research
This has been happening since the first pterosaur fossil was discovered in 1784 by a famous Italian scientist called Cosimo Collini.
At the Palace at Manheim, Germany in 1759, a fossil was found in a cupboard by Karl Theodor. He handed the fossil over to Collini to identify in 1764.
This was found to be the first ever recorded find of a fossil Pteodactyle(wing-finger). Collini called the specimen Pterodactylus antiquusin his scientific paper.