A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

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

In new research, an international team of researchers used high-resolution 3D imaging techniques, including microCT scanning, to reconstruct brain shapes from more than three dozen species.

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

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 ...

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

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

The Amazon's Hoatzin, or \"stinkbird,\" possesses a unique digestive system that ferments leaves, resulting in a cow dung-like odor. This adaptation all ...

According to bird experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, much about bird flying is dependent on the species, season, and what else the bird is doing. Songbirds that feed on insects vary in the elevation ...