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 ...

"Even birds that soar or glide require some flapping to get in the air and maintain flight. "This leads me to believe that flapping flight is the default condition, and that the behavior of soaring ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, giving them access to an entirely new ecological space.

Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously thought. Structures in the bones of these giant reptiles suggest the largest ones ...

(CNN) — Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study.

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 ...

A study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans Flying reptiles first came down from the trees in the mid-Jurassic Period, paving the way for ...

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 ...

Short-tailed pterosaurs, like this Balaenognathus were adapted for a life on the ground. This bizarre creature boasted nearly 500 needle-like teeth in its jaws, and likely used them to filter-feed on ...