Researchers suggest that studying the biological designs of prehistoric creatures could advance materials science.

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

Studying the ancient flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs could help engineers make aeroplanes that are more ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could be replicated to develop materials for next-gen aircraft.

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

The pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight. The species evolved to form enormous wingspans reaching ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Paleontologists on the Isle of Skye in Scotland have unearthed the largest pterosaur known from the Jurassic period.

Excavations in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, led by Dr. Brian Pickles have uncovered a 76-million-year-old single ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.