For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

U.K.-based environmental law firm ClientEarth is suing Shell’s 11-member board, saying they are failing to properly manage the business risks associated with climate change. The lawsuit, filed in ...

Shell pledged to "create more value with less emissions" while increasing shareholder returns through a balanced energy transition that includes more fossil fuel production, it said in an investor ...