Jay Damm hunting fossils at Mazonia State Fish and Wildlife Area leads the note package around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Campaigner says The Metals Company’s loss of a third of its exploration area is sign of a stuttering industry.

Saskia Birt uncovers the significant environmental stakes of deep-sea mining and its unforeseen role in oceanic oxygen production.

The first four levels are fossil levels, while the lowest level ... which looks like blackish gray nodules sticking out of the limestone because it doesn't dissolve in the acidic water like ...

Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56311-0 Cite This ...

Photographs shared on social media (archived, archived, archived) in January 2025 claimed to show the palms of a man who experienced "yellow nodules" on his hands after eating only beef ...

Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the ...

Metallic nodules found deep in the sea seem to be producing significant amounts of oxygen by some unknown mechanism, researchers revealed last year. Now, we may have found out how it is happening ...

“This research shows beyond doubt that organic biomolecules, such as proteins like collagen, appear to be present in some fossils,” remarked Professor Steve Taylor of the University of ...

Fossilized soft tissue is exceptionally rare in plesiosaur fossils. The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil evidence indicates that tropical riparian ecosystems recovered rapidly after the end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred around 252 million years ago ...