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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

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 ...

Unlike in the advanced labs under the watchful eye of Jurassic Park scientists on the fictional Isla Nublar, much of paleontology isn’t so glamorous. From days spent in remote desert landscapes 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. Hard stone casts inside skulls hinted at big ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period. It was paradise for American retirees—until it became the center of a drug war ...