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 ...

The case of a ‘fishy pterosaur’ is the latest example of mistaken identity involving these extraordinary flying reptiles.

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Around 110 million years ago, two small pterosaurs about the size of modern seagulls were flying over a lake or river, likely ...

Courtesy of Xing Lida A joint study by Chinese, South Korean and US scientists has reconstructed a brief prehistoric ...

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 ...

The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock are rainbow-colored trunks of prehistoric conifers, the crumbling bones of ...

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 ...