A private pilot with no nonprofit experience and a passion for animals set out to give something back, and what followed reshaped how thousands of shelter animals across the country find their way ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the pterosaurs took to the sky, as the first group of active fliers among the ...

Quetzalcoatlus lived around 72 to 66 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when it blocked out the sun with its 12 m (40 ft) wingspan. When it landed on the ground, it stood at a ...

Scientists have long puzzled over how pterosaurs became the first vertebrates to master flight. Some pterosaur species, such as the Quetzalcoatlus were the largest known animals to ever take to the ...

The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in bats today, researchers have found. The pterosaur likely used all four limbs to propel itself in the air, as seen in ...

However, there are many creatures that have developed ways to glide or soar through the air to escape predators, find food, or move from one place to another. These flying animals may not look like ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Petra Janney, of Amelia Air, a non-profit that helps fly animals from overcrowded shelters to areas of the country where they have a better chance of getting adopted. Is ...