The mound, thought to have been submerged in a flood 5,000 years ago. A recent discovery has sparked excitement among some experts who believe they may have found the fossil of Noah's Ark.

BP boss Murray Auchincloss has defended the company’s move to increase fossil fuel production and ditch its renewable energy commitments. Auchincloss is under mounting pressure from BP investors ...

Brazil is prioritizing enhanced climate action as it chairs COP30, proposing additional UN governance structures for effective commitment tracking. Despite acknowledging potential slowdowns due to the ...

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with a colleague from the Smithsonian Institution, has found evidence of ...

A fossil that was first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as a dinosaur that lived around 166 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.

Neanderthals once roamed large swaths of Eurasia for hundreds of thousands of years. Their skeletal remains are found across many excavation sites, yet their disappearance remains one of the biggest ...

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting a new dig in an area where dinosaur bones were previously found, and experts hope it will reveal new insights into the state’s Jurassic-era history.

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A sneak peek inside of the long-awaited $75 million Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University on Wednesday was well worth the wait. After almost 20 years from concept and design to swinging ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have a new potential way to find them Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...