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In an eat-or-be-eaten world, flight conveys a bevy of benefits. A creature that takes to the third dimension can more easily escape earthbound predators, dine off a much broader menu or drop down on ...

For paleontologist Ben Kligman, the question was: Is this fragile jawbone a pterosaur or not? Other researchers also had questions about the fossil, unearthed along with thousands of others during a ...

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, ...

The “Dragon of Death” might sound like something right out of Game of Thrones‘ prequel House of the Dragon. But this dragon is actually an ancient creature recently discovered in Argentina’s Andes ...

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The dinosaurs are coming to Miami, just around 66 million years or so after leaving the planet. And these suckers have wings. On Saturday, Frost Museum of Science will welcome its latest special ...

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