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.

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

Modern researchers know about the cuckoo’s cross-species brood parasitism – but one Roman emperor observed this more than 700 ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

Explore India’s remarkable journey from its ancient Golden Bird era to its rise as a modern economic powerhouse. This video ...

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs’ ability to achieve flight, says @HopkinsMedicine ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

So Dilophosaurus is no longer believed to have been venomous; but what about other dinosaurs?  In 2009, a small, feathered ...

A new study provides a clear picture of how birds are responding to climate change in the mountains near Vancouver.

Through a curated selection of twenty birds, each is brought to life through a startlingly life-like virtual representation ...