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

Fossil evidence reveals the development of the brain structures that enabled pterosaurs, the earliest ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

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

Dinosaurs in Dallas? Sure, Dinosaur Valley State Park and Big Bend National Park may be the star attractions for fossil ...

Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.

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 ...