Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...
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A 233-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Pterosaurs Learned to Fly
Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.
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Fossil brains reveal pterosaurs built their own ‘flight computers’
“But pterosaur brains seemed to appear out of nowhere. Now, with our first glimpse of an early pterosaur relative, we see ...
Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...
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 ...
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Dinosaurs Evolved Feathers for Far More Than Flight
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 ...
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," ...
Orville and Wilbur Wright may have been the first to achieve human flight, but a new exhibit at Grand Rapids Public Museum features creatures that beat them to it by a couple hundred million years.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Cape Fear Museum of History and Science has opened its latest traveling exhibition “Dinosaurs Take Flight: The Art of Archaeopteryx” to be shown until May 14, 2023.
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 ...
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