The McKinney blaze – the largest wildfire recorded this year in California – has turned fatal as the inferno exploded in size and emblazed its way through Klamath National Forest.
Rescuers have found lost animals – including a tiny kitten with singed whiskers and a terrified puppy with its fur charred from the fire – amid the destruction caused by the devastating fire.
Two people were found dead in their car on their driveway in the town of Klamath River,
Russian forces are giving up on Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv and retreating after weeks of bombardment and a failed effort to encircle it.
Ukraine’s general staff said the Russians were pulling back from the northeastern city and focusing on guarding supply routes, as Kyiv and Moscow’s forces engaged in a grinding battle for the country’s eastern industrial heartland.
Russian forces will instead focus on launching mortar, artillery and airstrikes in the eastern Donetsk province in order to ‘deplete Ukrainian
A 170 million-year-old pterosaur fossil unearthed in Scotland is the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period, a new study reveals.
The ‘exquisite skeleton’, extracted from the coast of the Isle of Skye, is the best-preserved skeleton of a pterosaur to be found in Scotland.
The giant winged species, which is new to science, had an estimated wingspan of more than eight feet (2.5 metres) – about the size of the largest birds today.
During the Jurassic
The fossilised remains of Britain’s largest complete ichthyosaur specimen have been found at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in the East Midlands.
The creature, dubbed ‘the Rutland Sea Dragon’, is some 33 feet (10 m) long and is the first of its species, Temnodontosaurus trigonodon, to ever be found in the UK.
Ichthyosaurs were a successful group of marine reptiles that swam Earth’s oceans between 250–90 million years ago. T. trigonodon lived around 180 million years ago.
The specimen was
The world’s largest pterosaur jumped in the air so it could get off the ground to be able to fly 70 million years ago, a new study has found.
Experts analysed fossils of Quetzalcoatlus – the largest known animal to take to the sky – found in Big Bend National Park in west Texas, to estimate its launch sequence.
They say the mammoth creature likely jumped at least 8 feet to get airborne before lifting off by sweeping its massive
