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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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For as long as dinosaurs walked the Earth, flying animals called pterosaurs ruled the skies. They ranged from the size of a sparrow to that of a two-seater plane. Close relatives ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to take to the air. Flapping with wings made of a membrane stretched over ludicrously-elongated fourth fingers, these flying reptiles filled the skies between 66 ...

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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 ...

The first pterosaurs took flight during the age of dinosaurs thanks to a sail-like tensioning system, a new study has found. Early pterosaurs — informally called "pterodactyls" — had long tails with ...