Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

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

The tradition of eating turkey at Christmas began in the early 16th century when William Strickland introduced turkeys to Europe in 1526. Henry VIII is known to have enjoyed turkey, and by the ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

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While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they first appeared, without the large brains that supported flight in birds. A ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx is a rare fossil that reveals the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. The fossil is on display inside the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet. Every bird you’ve ever ...

A team of researchers from China and the United States has shed new light on the ancient evolutionary transition from dinosaurs to birds, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved specimen of ...