Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.

Editor’s Note: Science has transformed our understanding of dinosaurs in the past two decades. Get caught up with what’s new in this five-part CNN series. One close glimpse of a modern bird, ...

Joe Wood makes his way through a forest, soaring over a canopy of trees with blue skies above him. He glides to the left, then the right before swooping down into some greenery. "OK, this is tiring," ...

Some of the largest and most ferocious dinosaurs of all time had an anatomical secret to their success. Like many modern birds, Tyrannosaurus, Apatosaurus and other giants had complex networks of air ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) will open its brand new exhibit, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, to the public Saturday at noon. The new exhibit will give ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies has revealed how dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Deinonychus used their famous killer claws, leading to a new ...

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how ...

Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats, these dinos were capable of only limited gliding between trees, a new anatomical analysis ...

The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific debut of the first non-avian dinosaur with feathers, Sinosauropteryx, and in ...

Click here for a printable "Wowsheet" to help turn this episode of Wow in the World into a scientific learning adventure! What in the world can a giant ostrich and a prehistoric dinosaur tell us about ...