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

Researchers found that these dinosaur-era flying reptiles developed an evolutionary pathway independent of that observed in ...

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

A beloved eagle, a school mascot, was electrocuted on PG&E power lines near an elementary school in the Bay Area. Could ...

Illustration: Matheus Fernandes Reconstruction of a late Triassic landscape approximately 215 million years ago: a lagerpetid ...

Dr. Mario Bronzati University of Tübingen Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Geoscience [email protected] PD Dr. Ingmar Werneburg University of Tübingen Department of Geoscience ...

Scientists are digging into one of evolution’s strangest puzzles — why only certain creatures developed minds that know they ...

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We often mindlessly trample on snails and earthworms because they move so slowly compared to the average human, but there’s a ...

Over the past decade, paleontology has entered a new era of rapid discovery and scientific transformation. Breakthrough ...