A "groundbreaking" fossil has been discovered in part of south Devon, council bosses say. Torbay Council said the fossils of trees, known as lycopsids and believed to be about 377 million years ...

NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Advanced scanning methods can capture minute details from fossil samples, while large-scale genome sequencing helps dig into the evolutionary relationships that tie together this whole family tree. In ...

But a new fossil discovery in another part of the world seemingly flips that notion on its head. The research, study co-author David Begun said, "suggest[s] that hominins not only evolved in ...

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

However, new discoveries have turned this assumption on its head. Recent fossil specimens reveal that this ancient plant is even stranger than previously thought, challenging how scientists classify ...

Scientists have just carried out an extensive study on two mysterious plant fossils discovered in Utah – but it’s left them with more questions than answers. Only two known specimens of Othniophyton ...

Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Utah fossil expert, came across an unidentified plant fossil while visiting the University of California ...

At first, the resident thought they were baseballs. But after picking them up, it became clear they were something much rarer: giant fossil teeth. The homeowner—who, according to the Associated ...

It didn't take much to excavate these fossils. (New York State Museum) The man decided to call in professionals from the New York State Museum and SUNY (State University of New York) Orange to ...