Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists expected. New fossil reconstructions show that these ancient reptiles relied ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists believed flying reptiles called pterosaurs took to the air with birdlike brains. Old fossils seemed to show it. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to master powered flight, yet much of their story remains uncertain. Fossil evidence reveals impressive wingspans and diversity, but key details about their ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

Pterosaurs - known as pterodactyls - are the closest relatives of dinosaurs and roamed the Earth for over 160 million years from around 200 million years ago, during most of the Mesozoic until the end ...

The cause of death of two young pterosaurs that had baffled researchers has been revealed by paleontologists in Germany in what they have described as “a post-mortem 150 million years in the making”.

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 ...

My impression was possibly death by "surprise". A young critter has little to no experience with nature's extremes. I'd expect them to emulate the adults, since imitation is often how the young adapt ...

A species of flying reptile related to dinosaurs were able to evolve and take to the skies using aerodynamic features in their wings similar to modern planes, scientists discovered. Pterosaurs - known ...