When paleontologists hunt for fossils, they can encounter two different types. The first, "body fossils," are the remaining parts of the animal, like shells, horns, bones, and teeth. The second, ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil - and natural versions could be more damaging than synthetic ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago. A ...

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

A massive terror bird fossil, the largest of its kind, was recently uncovered in Colombia’s desert—shedding light on ancient ecosystems.

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the ... Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, Cai said he thought the beetle was a type of click beetle in ...

CHICAGO (AP) — European climate agency says 2024 will very likely be hottest year on record, driven by the burning of fossil fuels.

Despite being a major oil and gas producer, Norway has adopted the most ambitious electric vehicle (EV) objective in the ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the ... Upon first look of the firefly fossil in 2016, Cai said he thought the insect was a type of beetle in the ...