"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ash deposits, which is extremely unusual," study lead author Valentina ...

A dip in sales is causing Texas fashion retailer Fossil to close numerous retail stores as it tries to drive profit. In an outline of its turnaround plan, the maker of watches, handbags and ...

Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site known as McGraths Flat near the town of Gulgong. After coming up empty at a nearby fossil site ...

But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some cases, traces of melanosomes – cell organelles that contain the pigment melanin – can be seen when ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

BP boss Murray Auchincloss has defended the company’s move to increase fossil fuel production and ditch its renewable energy commitments. Auchincloss is under mounting pressure from BP investors ...

To this end, Brazil is proposing that countries agree to finalise a 10-year roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels and ending deforestation. Even as the Brazilian environment minister set ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fossil evidence indicates that humans began domesticating avocados in what is now Honduras around 7,500 years ago. Analysis of 1,725 fossilized avocados from the ...

Bible researchers find ‘trace of 5,000-year-old flood’ around ‘giant boat fossil’ The breakthrough discovery comes after years of speculative research on this site Harvey Geh ...

The newly identified dinosaur may have been about the size of a pony, and was at least eight years old when it died, according to the researchers. The fossil was first recorded by paleontologists ...

The study was co-authored by Professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Brian Keeling. The team analyzed fossils that point to a serious Neanderthal population dip around 110,000 years ago. The ...