The production of fossil fuels is responsible for more extreme climate events that fuel vegetation growth — and wildfires ...

VERNAL — A previously unknown muskrat-sized mammal species that once roamed this area when the Intermountain West looked more like a swampland millions of years ago has been discovered through a ...

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

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.

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 ...

was found in a fossil-rich area near Rome in central New York state, known as Beecher’s Bed. Lead study author Luke Parry began examining the fossils when he was a postdoctoral researcher at the ...

Unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock you out ... The Burmese amber containing the fossil firefly from about 145 and 65 million years ago, representing a transitional ...

These fossil ankle bones look like they're built to do something similar." An illustration of the newly described Avisaurus darwini, whose unusual foot bones indicate that it was one of the ...

Scientists have revealed a new, remarkably complete fossil - a 16ft (5m)-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period. The creature dates back 240 million years and has been dubbed a "dragon ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Princeton University has reversed a policy that had sharply constrained the funding of academic research by ...

Gondwanax paraisensis fossil found in southern Brazil Fossil dates back to Triassic period, 237 million years ago Discovery could shed light on dinosaur evolutionary success SAO JOAO DO POLESINE ...

Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it. Dating showed the creature ...