Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart, pterosaurs may be more similar to modern-day birds than previously thought. Structures in the bones of these giant reptiles suggest the largest ones ...

Pterosaurs combined flight, size, and physical strength in ways rarely seen in the animal kingdom. This video compares their anatomy and behavior to modern birds, reptiles, and terrestrial predators.

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 ...