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, ...

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 ...

"The breakthrough was the discovery of an ancient pterosaur relative, a small lagerpetid archosaur named Ixalerpeton from 233 ...

In a surprising scientific discovery, researchers have identified a new extinct flying reptile species inside fossilised dinosaur vomit. The remains, known as "regurgitalite," have been stored for ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of flying reptile, named Bakiribu waridza. The most compelling detail of the discovery is the origin of the fossil ...

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 ...