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 ...

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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 ...

Not only that, but the finding paints a picture of what life was like way back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and what the Earth actually looked like when there were still land bridges between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BP said on Wednesday it would increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss' efforts to boost returns and improve ...

Recently our research team discovered some remarkable fossil traces which might give a hint. These traces were found alongside some of the oldest known human footprints in the Americas at a place ...

At White Sands, we found drag-marks made by the ends of wooden poles while excavating for fossil footprints. Sometimes these appear as just one trace, while at other times they occur as two ...

The investor environment has also been transformed by the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump, a climate sceptic and advocate of fossil fuels. Pressure has become intense on BP after ...

BP‘s chief executive will scrap a target to increase renewable generation 20-fold by 2030, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of a strategy shift announced on Wednesday to tackle ...