A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains.

“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 ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

"The breakthrough was the discovery of an ancient pterosaur relative, a small lagerpetid archosaur named Ixalerpeton from 233-million-year-old Triassic rocks in Brazil," said Mario Bronzati, lead ...

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 ...

Learn more about the animals you thought were dinosaurs, and the animal we thought wasn't a dinosaur, but actually is.

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

Illustration: Matheus Fernandes Reconstruction of a late Triassic landscape approximately 215 million years ago: a lagerpetid ...

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 ...