A North Dakota jury ordered the environmental group to pay pipeline company Energy Transfer nearly $700 million in damages in the yearslong pipeline lawsuit. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ...

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

(Fossil) Fossil Group is looking for its next chapter under new leadership, even as it makes even deeper cuts and grapples with falling sales. The Richardson-based retailer, which sells watches ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

Prospecting for eggshells in Utah, 2020. (Credit: Lindsay Zanno, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), image is cropped to fit website dimensions ...

Its fossil was discovered in the early 2000s. But in 2005, a million-year-old fossil was discovered in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India. This fossil was analysed by experts, and their analysis ...

Californians pay some of the nation’s highest electricity rates. They’re also being devastated by the consequences of fossil fueled climate change, including more deadly and expensive ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

As the nation moves towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, its energy portfolio must extend beyond fossil fuels to incorporate a diverse mix of renewable sources. Currently, coal and natural ...