Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient fossils was uncovered. There are millions of fossils that make up those excavated since ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest. Fifty million years ago, lush ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes Peninsula's ancient geological past. Researchers ...

What’s often overlooked, though, is that their environment also contained artefacts from an ancient past: the San lived and hunted among fossil footprints, bones, skulls and teeth of long ...

Study of Monkey Fossils Found in Cave Sheds Light on the Animals' Extinction Centuries Ago Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

Earlier this year, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan stood up at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin and told ministers, fossil fuels are a “gift from the gods.” Having oil and gas deposits ...

In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo ...

Workers install photovoltaic panels at the Ningxia Tengger Desert New Energy Base in Zhongwei, in ... [+] China's northern Ningxia region. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) The world added 473 ...