A "groundbreaking" fossil has been discovered in part of south Devon, council bosses say. Torbay Council said the fossils of trees, known as lycopsids and believed to be about 377 million years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have just carried out an extensive study on two mysterious plant fossils discovered in Utah – but it’s left them with more questions than answers. Only two known specimens of Othniophyton ...

Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Utah fossil expert, came across an unidentified plant fossil while visiting the University of California ...

"When I found the teeth and examined them in my hands, I knew they were something special," says the homeowner, who does not want to be identified. It didn't take much to excavate these fossils. (New ...

At first, the resident thought they were baseballs. But after picking them up, it became clear they were something much rarer: giant fossil teeth. The homeowner—who, according to the Associated ...

But a recent assessment of a 47-million-year-old fossil collected from the same area of Utah, which appears to represent the same species, has demonstrated that it does not coincide with any ...