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 ...

Even at the UN climate summit last year in Baku (COP29), fossil fuels were scarcely addressed in key documents, despite their usage being the primary cause of the climate crisis.

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 ...

Tiny fossils, big discoveries: Researchers reveal new clues about early ocean life by Eric Stann, University of Missouri edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Fossilised whale along with other marine invertebrate fossils. Credit: Shiladri S. Das Scientists have discovered fossilised vertebrae and ribs of a whale on the bank of a dried, seasonal river in ...

“It’s absolutely amazing. It’s beyond what I’ve ever seen. There’s so much there, it would be impossible to collect them all. The fossils we’ve already found will take decades to study.” ...