A Chicago man filed a lawsuit in 2023 against Buffalo Wild Wings, arguing that it had engaged in false advertising of its boneless wings. A judge said the claim “has no meat on its bones.” By ...

When we imagine the prehistoric world of flying reptiles, our modern perspective often leads us to visualize creatures similar to birds. However, recent paleontological discoveries have revealed a ...

A new study led by Ohio University’s Lawrence Witmer reveals that pterosaurs built their own “flight computers” from scratch, evolving unique brain structures for powered flight long before birds took ...

The Pterosauria comprises the Mesozoic flying reptiles whose unique anatomy imposes some challenging constraints to be surpassed when it comes to biomechanical studies, besides having left no modern ...

An artist’s impression of a tiny Pterodactylus hatchling struggling against a raging tropical storm, inspired by fossil discoveries. Credit: Rudolf Hima Scientists at the University of Leicester have ...

ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the long-extinct pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were the first to master the skies more ...

Powered flight has evolved separately in three tetrapod clades: pterosaurs, birds (avian dinosaurs), and bats. To meet the challenges of powered flight, tetrapods acquired structural, mechanical, and ...

In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two tiny fossils, speaking across 150 million years. These remains are from ...

One hundred and fifty million years ago, the Solnhofen Limestones of Germany were covered in small islands and warm saltwater lagoons. Coral reefs flourished with crinoids, sponges, jellyfish, and ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

The Mesozoic era is often associated with giant animals, including various sauropods, large marine reptiles, and pterosaurs with wingspans that could rival those of small aircraft. However, ecosystems ...