Artwork by James Robins.

Flying reptiles had nurturing parental style

A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur. Credit: René Lauer

New fossil flying reptile ‘Elvis’ takes flight.

Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like.

Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers

Two Vectipelta barretti - copyright Stuart Pond

Ankylosaur: New armoured dinosaur discovered

The fossil was found on a National Trust beach on the Isle of Wight

First side-necked turtle ever discovered in UK

Mantle plumes, shown in red, have been identified around the world. (Ingo Wölbern, via Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists unearth 20 million years of ‘hot spot’ magmatism under Cocos...

Steve May, a research associate at the Jackson School of Geosciences, holds a fossil from a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences/ The University of Texas at Austin.

Newly discovered Jurassic fossils in Texas

Powerful volcanic eruptions produce ash plumes that can create their own weather systems, providing the conditions for lightning at higher altitudes than normally seen.

A Tongan volcano plume produced the most intense lightning rates ever...

Inner Earth. Credit: Gary Hincks/Science Photo Library

Earth’s solid metal sphere is ‘textured’

Dinosaur Photo: MICHAEL ROSSKOTHEN/MostPhotos

Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others

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