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Her doctoral research focused on Euphractus sexcinctus, aka the yellow, or six-banded, armadillo (above), whose courtship rituals she has observed and filmed. In the Pantanal wetlands of Brazil ...

What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient fossils was uncovered. There are millions of fossils that make up those excavated since ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

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.

Workers at Zoic, a fossil restoration firm in Trieste, Italy, reassemble an Allosaurus unearthed in Wyoming. The specimen later sold at auction in Paris for $1.4 million. Like a prehistoric nod to ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

Trilobite Fossils from Upstate New York Reveal 'Extra' Set of Legs Sep. 12, 2024 — A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

Earlier this year, President Aliyev of Azerbaijan stood up at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin and told ministers, fossil fuels are a “gift from the gods.” Having oil and gas deposits ...

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 ...