A team led by palaeontologists at the University of Edinburgh used new laser technology to study the tail vane on a 150-million-year-old fossil. Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to a sail-like ...

Previous research revealed that maintaining stiffness in the tail vane was crucial to enabling early pterosaurs’ flight, but exactly how the was achieved has remained a mystery until now.

Previous research revealed that maintaining stiffness in the tail vane was crucial to enabling early pterosaurs’ flight, but exactly how the was achieved has remained a mystery until now. The team ...