The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

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 ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very origin despite having relatively small brains. Using advanced CT imaging, ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period. It was paradise for American retirees—until it became the center of a drug war ...