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.

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

“But pterosaur brains seemed to appear out of nowhere. Now, with our first glimpse of an early pterosaur relative, we see ...

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 ...

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

A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering ...

Imagine a scientist discovering something new in your vomit 110 million years from now. That is precisely what happened when ...

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

The comparatively smaller Origami Holiday Tree that’s delighted crowds for decades at the American Museum of Natural History ...

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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 ...