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Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it. Dating showed the creature ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...

Coal emits more heat-trapping gas to the atmosphere than any other fossil fuel, so its demise as a source of electricity is an unalloyed good for the climate. Yet, with another announcement a week ...

These fossil ankle bones look like they're built to do something similar." An illustration of the newly described Avisaurus darwini, whose unusual foot bones indicate that it was one of the ...

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Princeton University has reversed a policy that had sharply constrained the funding of academic research by ...

Anyone with an active warrant in the Denver metro area with a low-level offense had a chance to have their case cleared during Fresh Start Warrant Clearance Day.

G20 leaders affirmed their commitment to shifting away from fossil fuels after talks this week in Washington, according to a ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...