Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New fossil scans reveal pterosaurs flew with smaller, reptile-like brains. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the ...

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 a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired the ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

Two baby pterosaurs that died 150 million years ago have helped scientists uncover the prehistoric event that claimed their lives and shaped their preservation. Researchers from the University of ...