A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

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

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 ...

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

Slow-motion footage of baby birds helps scientists uncover how their ancestors took to the skies. Birds today make flight look effortless, but its evolution was complex. Scientists are still trying to ...

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.

An air-filled sac within the birds' lungs is believed to increase the force the birds use to power flight muscles while soaring. Soaring birds -- like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures -- can ...

Ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs learned to fly while their brains were small, taking a very different path from bird evolution.

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