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.

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

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

Flying dinosaurs almost sound like an oxymoron. Monster reptiles sound like the last thing that would be able to soar, but they started off from something small and earthbound. You probably wouldn’t ...

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 ...

The first pterosaurs took flight during the age of dinosaurs thanks to a sail-like tensioning system, a new study has found.

The discovery of an unusual new species of pterosaur is shaking up the history of the iconic flying reptiles. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers, following analysis of a ...

In 2013, a police raid at Santos Harbor in Brazil recovered about 3,000 smuggled fossils, including the most intact specimen of a type of big-headed pterosaur ever found. A new analysis of the fossil ...

• 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 ...

April 14 (UPI) --With wingspans of nearly 40 feet, the biggest azhdarchid pterosaur species were the largest animals to ever take to the skies. Even more impressive, the largest species boasted necks ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on ...