TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

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 ...

"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 ...

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their planned legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate ...

Irish-based subsidiaries of investment companies held more than €31 billion in fossil fuel investments as of June 2024, according to a new report from ActionAid Ireland and Trócaire. Ireland's ...

Rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and limiting energy consumption to tackle climate change is “a strategy doomed to fail” according to former UK prime minister Tony Blair. In the foreword of a ...

This lineage of terrestrial crocs, called sebecids, lasted longer than previously believed, according to researchers who described fossils recently unearthed in the Dominican Republic that reveal ...

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...

Last week, the US Department of the Interior announced that it would speed up the approval process for certain fossil fuel projects, proclaiming that environmental analyses that previously would ...