Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

questions some of the methodologies used to construct the new family tree but notes that the new placement makes sense as Deinosuchus fossils show an array of traits seen in alligators and ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

Why did some animals from ancient eras become fossils, while others simply disappeared without a trace? The answer, at least in part, may lie within their own bodies, according to a study from the ...

"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to be ...

The State of Hawaiʻi has filed a lawsuit against several fossil fuel companies and the American Petroleum Institute, accusing them of deceptive practices and failing to warn the public about the ...

Gov. Mark Gordon recently joined several Wyoming business proprietors at a trade show in Taiwan, where Casper-based Backwards Distilling Company and Gillette-based Big Lost Meadery are highly ...

Gaining control over Russia's mineral resources solves the economic problems of the European Union at once, so Brussels prevents the conflict from being stopped at Ukraine and prepares The EU is ready ...

A rare fossil has been identified as an ancient species of internal parasite called a thorny-headed worm. Today these worms can be found in many different animals, but this new species from the ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New Zealand, 20 million years ago. These crustaceans, which stretched to nearly 10 ...