When Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima by the Allied forces in 1945, temperatures in the city rose to 7,000°F from ground ...

Researchers at Edinburgh University harness new laser technology to discover large sail-like ‘vanes’ at the end of the ...

Researchers have long puzzled over how winged dinosaurs ruled the skies – until now. Pterosaurs were able to fly thanks to ...

Fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile, have been uncovered in the ...

Dr Natalia Jagielska, lead author and PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh, said: “It never ceases to astound me ...

Ostriches descend from a group of birds that arose in the late Cretaceous period and somehow lived through a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to the latest genetic data and ...

One idea being followed is to look for things that living things introduce into their environments. In the case of our world ...

In searching for life on other planets, including on planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets), we are faced with some ...

The fossil was unearthed in the Los Blanquitos Formation near Amblayo, in the north of Argentina. It dates to between 75 and ...