Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These ...

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.

“Interestingly, we found that pterosaurs had relatively small brains, comparable in size to those of non-flying dinosaurs and ...

During the Jurassic period, sharp-toothed flying reptiles with the wingspan of a modern golden eagle soared through the skies ...

Did the pterosaurs, flying reptiles from the days of the dinosaurs, practice parental care or not? New research shows that pterosaurs were indeed caring parents -- but only the larger species. Did the ...

Flying reptiles that once winged around England 110 million years ago are closely related to their contemporaries found in Brazil and elsewhere around the world, new research finds. The new study is ...

A hoard of fossilized pterosaur eggs discovered in China is helping scientists gain a rare insight into the extinct flying reptiles. Newly released research into over 200 eggs and 16 embryos from the ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even since the time of giants, but paleontologists turned to some of the smallest reptile fossils to reveal the power of these storms. While the bigger ...

Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures ...

A college student has discovered a prehistoric flying reptile that lived around 200 million years ago in what is now the United Kingdom. Mike Cawthorne, a masters student at the University of Bristol ...

• Flying pterosaurs were caring parents – but only larger species. • Research led by University College Cork finds parental care behaviour changed with evolution. • International team involved ...