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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 ...
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Large Flying Reptile That Ruled the Sky 100 Million Years Ago Found by Lake

The remains of a large flying reptile that roamed Earth's skies 100 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs have been uncovered by researchers. The prehistoric creature is a pterosaur, a ...
techtimes

Massive 100-Million-Year-Old Flying Dinosaur as Big as a Plane Found in Australia

Researchers led by Curtin University have identified fossilized bones of a massive flying dinosaur, Haliskia peterseni, in western Queensland, Australia. Unearthed in 2021 by Kevin Petersen, curator ...
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Jurassic ghost in Thar: Possible 180 million-year-old flying dinosaur fossil unearthed in Jaisalmer

JAISALMER: The ghost of a Jurassic giant seems to have risen from the desert in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district - a flying herbivore with a wingspan stretching across time, possibly 180 million years.