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Pterosaurs prove big brains are not needed to fly — in contrast to modern bird ancestors
For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...
Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...
In new research, an international team of researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging techniques, including microCT scanning, ...
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Fossil brains reveal pterosaurs built their own ‘flight computers’
Researchers found that these dinosaur-era flying reptiles developed an evolutionary pathway independent of that observed in ...
Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...
New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs’ ability to achieve flight, says @HopkinsMedicine ...
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A 233-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Pterosaurs Learned to Fly
"The breakthrough was the discovery of an ancient pterosaur relative, a small lagerpetid archosaur named Ixalerpeton from 233 ...
In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of ...
Dr. Mario Bronzati University of Tübingen Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Geoscience mariobronzati@gmail.com PD Dr. Ingmar Werneburg University of Tübingen Department of Geoscience ...
Watch out for the dinosaurs, they're invading Paris Montreuil Expo from December 20, 2025, to May 3, 2026, during a LEGO ...
Among the Russian fighter jets, eVTOLs, and commercial airliners sat Sprayground's Gold Chopper, a full-size sculpture from a ...
Illustration: Matheus Fernandes Reconstruction of a late Triassic landscape approximately 215 million years ago: a lagerpetid ...
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