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

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

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

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

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

Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from ...

Illustration: Matheus Fernandes Reconstruction of a late Triassic landscape approximately 215 million years ago: a lagerpetid ...

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 ...

Picture a world of flying reptiles the size of two-seater planes or larger swooshing through the skies diving into waters for fish, hovering above the Kansas plains, the dense canopies of the ...