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

Regurgitalites — fossilized vomit — are extraordinarily rare. They require an improbable sequence of events. The expulsion ...

Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, contributing significantly to knowledge of the Cretaceous period. In particular, ...

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

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 ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...