What starts as a journey through the fossil record quickly becomes a disturbing look at some of the most horrifying deaths ever preserved in prehistoric history. Across millions of years, rare fossil ...

To mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, Kirsty Young will present a 90-minute live event from the Royal Albert Hall in London. ‘David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth’ will also be ...

A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals. Palaeontologist Dave Hone spills the secrets of how dinosaurs lived, from h ...

500+ pterosaur fossils found at Solnhofen may be hiding a dark secret distorting our view of them. At the Solnhofen formation in Germany, over 500 fossils of 15 pterosaur species have been found. But ...

Pterosaurs combined flight, size, and physical strength in ways rarely seen in the animal kingdom. This video compares their anatomy and behavior to modern birds, reptiles, and terrestrial predators.

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A new study led by Ohio University’s Lawrence Witmer reveals that pterosaurs built their own “flight computers” from scratch, evolving unique brain structures for powered flight long before birds took ...

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In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the pioneers, taking to the skies more than ...