Learn more about the animals you thought were dinosaurs, and the animal we thought wasn't a dinosaur, but actually is.
In new research, an international team of researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging techniques, including microCT scanning, ...
Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of ...
The cold weather is pushing south, and snow geese are starting to fly into the area. Eagles are also flying into the state, ...
Meteorologists estimate that Lawrence had already seen 1 to 2 inches of snow as of around 10 a.m. Monday with up to 3 total ...
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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-million-year-old Triassic rocks in Brazil," said Mario Bronzati, lead ...
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