To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

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 ...

"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to be ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New Zealand, 20 million years ago. These crustaceans, which stretched to nearly 10 ...

Irish-based subsidiaries of investment companies held more than €31 billion in fossil fuel investments as of June 2024, according to a new report from ActionAid Ireland and Trócaire. Ireland's ...

The Philippines is facing a critical moment in its energy transition. With fossil fuels still supplying 78% of the country’s electricity, climate advocates and policymakers are calling for an urgent ...

The Guardian reports that “Blair has called for the government to change course on climate, suggesting a strategy that limits fossil fuels in the short term or encourages people to limit consumption ...

Irish branches of international financial institutions are facilitating billions of euro in investments in expanding fossil-­fuel operations around the world, new research shows. The analysis ...

Sebecid fossils are changing everything we thought we knew about the ancient Caribbean. Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound – tall, fast, and fully land-dwelling. These agile predators, some ...

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...

And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a recent vertebrae fossil find belonged to “about as big” a mosasaur specimen as one could get.