An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

But while pop culture and general scientific opinion have agreed for decades that the long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores, there was no definitive proof found in the fossil record.

A rare fossil find in Alberta, Canada, shows a young pterosaur bone with a crocodilian bite mark. Scientists from University of Reading and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology studied the bone.

Stacks at Bull Run Fossil Plant in Claxton to be imploded on June 28 by: Gregory Raucoules Posted: Jun 20, 2025 / 06:40 PM EDT Updated: Jun 25, 2025 / 01:34 PM EDT ...

The whale tooth from Valencina, measuring 17cm tall and 7cm wide and weighing over 0.5kg, provides a unique glimpse into the past. Analysis of the fossil revealed it came from an adult sperm whale ...

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

A study finds tree planting alone can't offset carbon from fossil fuel reserves, highlighting the financial and physical limits of nature-based climate solution ...

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...

At Bone Valley, dirt is brought into the dig site from an undisclosed private location. The dirt is from 20 feet down in the Earth, the Miocene fossil layer, Hodge said.

To counteract the planet-warming emissions caused by the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies, trees would have to cover the entire land mass of North and Central America, a new study said.

Past volcanic warming linked to marine extinctions, high-resolution fossil data show by Nanjing University School of Earth Sciences and Engineering edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

Some of the many plant fossils found within Judy’s gut contents, including conifer bracts (B) and a seed fern seed pod (C). Scale bars = 1 centimetre. Stephen Poropat in Poropat et al. (2025 ...