Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

I love it!" This isn't the first time that Amazon has sold an adorable Fossil bag on sale, as this gorgeous crossbody bag was on sale just last month. But honestly, this new Fossil find may be our ...

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 ...

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

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This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs. Why it's awesome: With their long snout ...

and it can cause a fossil specimen to disintegrate. It’s sometimes known as pyrite decay or pyrite disease. To protect at-risk fossils, we limit their exposure to air and humidity by storing them in ...

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 ...

A Tasmanian tiger, declared extinct in 1936, is displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney (AFP via Getty) Ancient fossil specimens generally only retain short DNA sequences and little to no RNA ...