But a recent fossil discovery near Frankfurt, Germany is helping expand our knowledge of the bug’s evolution—and it appears to be the earliest example of the Cicadinae subfamily ever found.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete fossil of Eoplatypleura messelensis, the earliest known Cicadinae and first true cicada from the Messel Pit, dates to 47 million years ago ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

Alex Epstein argues for burning more fossil fuels, not less. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin met with fossil fuels advocate Alex Epstein last month, in the latest sign of the agency’s retreat from ...

But the decline in the coming decade will be slowed due in large part to data center expansion powered by fossil fuels, according to the latest New Energy Outlook report from BloombergNEF.

The bones, which Bennison found in Del Puerto Canyon in Stanislaus County, represented the first scientifically documented discovery of a dinosaur fossil in California. About a year later ...

BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE BONE, RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE CREATURE IT BELONGED TO MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 30FT LONG. THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 ...

A ban on fossil fuel adverts in The Hague has been upheld by a Dutch court, in an “historic ruling” that campaigners hope will embolden other cities to take action. In a decision last ...

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Fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% of the U.S. power mix for the first month on record in March, according to energy think tank Ember on Friday, driven by a near-quarter rise in wind and ...