Walter Stein, Triebold's field manager, had recently discovered a single rib poking out of concrete-hard sandstone on private land Triebold had leased for fossil collecting. The prospect of ...

*Fossil fuels include coal, oil and natural gas. *They are the remains of forests from millions of years ago, and when burned, all the carbon that these forests absorbed is released back into the air.

As per the study, the original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The recently discovered fossils were found at a site called Mata Menge, about 45 miles from the ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...

The energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, ...

The prehistoric predator is known from 280-270-million-year-old fossils found in Mallorca, Spain. A life reconstruction of what may be the oldest known gorgonopsian. The prehistoric predator is ...

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 ...

Aa Aa Aa Until recently, the evolutionary events that surrounded the origin of the hominin lineage — which includes modern humans and our fossil relatives — were virtually unknown, and our ...

Find out how they lived, when they vanished, and how much we know about them today. Based on the fossil record, ammonites came in a wide range of sizes and shapes, from smaller than an inch to as ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ...