The fossils authenticate the rocks' Devonian Period origins and date back roughly 400 million years. In 2014, a University of ...

"This could potentially be the first record of a Devonian desert island with trees." Geopark coordinator Melanie Border said the fossil could open a "new chapter" of changing environments and ...

A 33-year-old man suspected of killing a woman on Sunday in an arson attack aboard a stationary subway train in Brooklyn, New York, was arraigned in criminal court on Tuesday on murder and arson ...

NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) - New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Cutting-edge technology has played a crucial role, says Daniel Field, who studies bird evolution at the University of Cambridge. Advanced scanning methods can capture minute details from fossil ...

To address this challenge, researchers are turning to the deep-sea fossil record, which offers a unique window into how deep-sea ecosystems and their fauna have responded to environmental changes ...

But a new fossil discovery in another part of the world seemingly flips that notion on its head. The research, study co-author David Begun said, "suggest[s] that hominins not only evolved in ...

Melanie Border, Geopark Coordinator, said: "We are incredibly excited about this fossil discovery at Saltern Cove. To date our Devonian age rocks have only provided evidence of a marine ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Initially, researchers speculated it might be part of the ginseng family. However, new discoveries have turned this assumption on its head. Recent fossil specimens reveal that this ancient plant is ...