In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

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 ...

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Pterosaurs -- the flying relatives of dinosaurs -- could control the color of their plumage, researchers have discovered. Pterosaurs lived alongside dinosaurs, 230 million to 66 million years ago. The ...

One close glimpse of a modern bird, especially around the eyes, and it may feel like you’re looking into the ancient past, when massive creatures walked the Earth and soared across its skies. It’s ...

Apparently there were even more dinosaurs flying the fearsome skies. “Scientists have discovered three new species of flying reptiles that lived in the Sahara 100 [million] years ago,” according to ...

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Editor’s Note: Science has transformed our understanding of dinosaurs in the past two decades. Get caught up with what’s new in this five-part CNN series. One close glimpse of a modern bird, ...

One close glimpse of a modern bird, especially around the eyes, and it may feel like you’re looking into the ancient past, when massive creatures walked the Earth and soared across its skies. It’s ...