Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, but they remain the only major volant group to face ...

Pterosaurs – commonly known as pterodactyls – were the first and largest vertebrates to achieve powered flight.

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 ...

One evening as the summer of 1859 drew to an end, a telegraph operator in Washington received a tremendous shock. An arc of ...

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 ...

Since its discovery in the 1990s, "programmed cell death protein 1," or PD-1, has been regarded as a leading target in cancer treatments.

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 ...