The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

The idea of a “flying snake” sounds like something out of mythology or science fiction. But in the forests of South and ...

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 ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history of life on Earth. Scientists discovered a new species of flying reptile ...

With 23-foot wingspans and hefty bodies, the ancient airborne reptiles of the Jurassic Period might seem the unlikeliest of flying machines. In fact, as commonly depicted, these animals, called ...

Paleontologist Lísie V. S. Damke holding an enlarged model of the brain of Venetoraptor gassenae. (Rodrigo Temp Müller via SWNS) By Stephen Beech The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...