A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

But while pop culture and general scientific opinion have agreed for decades that the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores, there was no definitive proof found in the fossil record.

A rare fossil find in Alberta, Canada, shows a young pterosaur bone with a crocodilian bite mark. Scientists from University of Reading and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology studied the bone.

Fossils in the Boquillas Formation at Big Bend National Park in Texas reveal new clues about the Cretaceous.

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

Some of the many plant fossils found within Judy’s gut contents, including conifer bracts (B) and a seed fern seed pod (C). Scale bars = 1 centimetre. Stephen Poropat in Poropat et al. (2025 ...

Some have committed to selling stocks or bonds or other investments in any fossil fuel-related business. Others, though, have just pledged to get out of the dirtiest energy sources, like thermal ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

The whale tooth from Valencina, measuring 17cm tall and 7cm wide and weighing over 0.5kg, provides a unique glimpse into the past. Analysis of the fossil revealed it came from an adult sperm whale ...

Ethel Cain, Beach Fossils, Sophie Thatcher, STRFKR, and Osees are among the 100 artists who have joined forces with a campaign calling to abolish ICE. Launched by Los Angeles creative studio Ride ...

A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size of North and Central ...