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 ...

Fossilized footprints unearthed in Korea have shown that pterosaurs, which flew through the skies 100 million years ago, also pursued prey on land. It had been assumed from their skeletal structure ...

Pterosaurs, the flying cousins of the dinosaurs, reached immense sizes in the late Cretaceous period (100-66 million years ago), some species with wingspans of perhaps more than ten metres. Their ...