The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, ...

Joe Wood makes his way through a forest, soaring over a canopy of trees with blue skies above him. He glides to the left, then the right before swooping down into some greenery. "OK, this is tiring," ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. Pterosaurs ...

Concluding, Dr Rosenbach states: "Pterosaurs were the earliest and largest vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but they are the only major volant group that has gone extinct. "Attempts to-date to ...

An Ohio University-led study reveals how pterosaurs evolved unique brain structures for flight more than 220 million years ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Museum is kicking off its latest exhibit, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs March 5 th at noon. This prehistoric exhibit gives the public a ...

The American Museum of Natural History's latest exhibition, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, opens today (check out just a few of the things we learned at the exhibit here). At the media ...

Some species of pterosaurs flew by flapping their wings while others soared like vultures, demonstrates a new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. It has long been ...

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