Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

She is one of a number of lawyers, law professors and judges who have been the focus of a campaign to discredit them led by a conservative group with ties to the fossil fuel industry and the Trump ...

He enjoys visiting the La Brea Tar Pits, so he can watch the paleontologists through the glass windows, working in the Fossil Lab and imagining himself there one day. Today, he asked me, “Is there a ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

Fossils are usually associated with dinosaur bones or ancient sea creatures preserved in stone. But scientists now believe that modern waste – from polyester clothing to electronic devices ...

With today’s new No Man’s Sky update, titled Relics, there’s now an even more compelling reason to get digging, because you can now unearth fossils. That’s right, if seeing No Man’s Sky ...

Humankind’s defining testament will be dramatically different from the skeletons, bones and other biological traces that inform today’s fossil record, according to authors Sarah Gabbott and ...

While “there’s a lot of room for improvement with metals mining,” said Julie Klinger, a mineral supply chains expert at the University of Delaware, “look at the devastation that fossil fue ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age. Fossils are usually ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on the early evolution of these herbivorous dinosaurs. Unearthed in the El ...

Its creaky wooden floor is now covered with fossil displays as the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History takes shape. “In the museum, we have a representation of everything from the very ...

Typically, amber forms over millions of years as tree resin fossilizes, but paleontologists have sped that up, creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help ...