Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, with a ...

Stargate already has the blessing of newly-inaugurated president Donald Trump who this week said he has plans to “unleash” the US fossil fuel industry. Looser regulations on oil and gas ...

Fossils of these mysterious stalks, dating to between 350 million and 420 million years ago, reveal “trunks up to 24 feet … high and as wide as 3 feet,” reported National Geographic’s Anne ...

France’s low-carbon electricity output surged to more than 95% of annual power production for the first time in 2024, as rising nuclear and hydro generation squeezed the use of fossil fuels.

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LIMA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific ...

A deal on ending public financing for foreign fossil fuel projects — which Canada co-led on the world stage — has died in the face of key holdout countries and the incoming administration of U ...

State Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel said the city failed to prove that Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP misled New Yorkers about the climate impacts of fossil fuels. In a win for the fossil fuel ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

A detailed 3D model of Punk and Emo, reconstructed as digital virtual fossils. Credit: Dr Mark Sutton / Imperial College Londo The discovery of two ancient fossils shows early mollusks were more ...