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 ...

Images from sites of two important archaeological discoveries published this week. The huge flying reptile Dearc sgiathanach unearthed on the Isle of Skye and the fish fossils in North Dakota that ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have briefly taken to the skies—only to give it up later. By studying rare fossils with preserved feathers, researchers uncovered a surprising clue hidden in molting ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

When the asteroid struck 66 million years ago, it ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs - but not dinosaurs themselves. In this video, we explore the remarkable birds that survived the extinction and ...