Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated ...

Fossils tell us the world over about life on Earth before humans existed - they can help us understand what the climate was like, what creatures lived on the planet, and what caused significant ...

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 ...

It was the 1920s, and scientists were searching far and wide for fossils of human ancestors. The question of where humans evolved was open, and while Charles Darwin had claimed it might be Africa ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

ANU researcher Ilya Bobrovskiy found specimens of Dickinsonia and a related organism called Andiva in the rocks "The fossil fat molecules that we've found prove that animals were large and ...

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 ...

Fossils predating the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years have been found in a paving stone in a Scottish city centre. Thousands of people have walked over the remains of 385 million-year ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our planet, from climate and evolution to diets and diseases. There may be more to these prehistoric ...

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient creatures, forgotten about by the world, hidden in rocks under our feet. My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so ...

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 ...