A 233-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How #Pterosaurs Learned to Fly.
Learn how early reptiles began building the visual and brain skills needed for flight long before takeoff.
#Fossils of Ixalerpeton offered the clearest window yet into the earliest stages of pterosaur brain evolution. Although this small reptile never flew, its brain shows that some of the sensory groundwork for flight was already forming before wings ever appeared.
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