In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

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 ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

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 ...

A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death 150 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago, pterosaurs ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped palaeontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down when pterosaurs adapted to live on the ground. These awe-inspiring flying ...

Michael Habib has worked on a prototype folding wing system based on pterosaur flight through a Nasa-funded university project. David Hone and Liz Martin-Silverstone do not work for, consult, own ...