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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A team of researchers from Japan, China, and Brazil have discovered a new species of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Japan, marking the first time a pterosaur has been named based on body ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.