Europe can dramatically cut its dependence on imported fossil fuels by adopting electricity-based technologies, according to a new report. Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and renewables could cut ...

What can you tell us about this creature and the environment it lived in? The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost identical segments. Projecting from each is a delicate, gill-like structure.

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

The fossil belongs to an ancient relative of Nothopegia, a genus now found only in the southern reaches of the Western Ghats. Its presence in the northeast offers evidence that species endemic to ...

The National Park Service (NPS) called the paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument "groundbreaking," as it gives an idea of what the long-extinct animals lived like in ...

KIMBERLY, Ore. (KTVZ) — A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints dating back as far as 50 million years ...

The find earned it the title of the oldest such specimen, according to a paper in the journal Current Biology. The fossil is a member of Haidomyrmecinae — an extinct subfamily from the Cretaceous ...

This fossil, which is called Proteroctopus ribeti, is of a 165-million-year-old cephalopod. While not the oldest fossil of an octopus ever found, it is one of the most complete and best preserved.

Recently found fossils suggest they inhabited the Caribbean as well—and thrived there long after they disappeared on the continent. Jorge Machuky / Florida Museum of Natural History After ...