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.

called the deep dive into dino droppings “insightful and innovative,” for putting some of the “most maligned fossils” under scrutiny. “Academic paleontologists can be prone to toilet ...

Recently, the University of Bristol team's findings came under question, but fresh analysis, published today in Royal Society Open Science, proves that the fossil is related to modern anguimorphs ...

Dave Einsel / Getty Images About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil record. No one knows for sure what killed them.

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...

In addition to touting the need to boost fossil fuels, Trump has disparaged subsidies for clean energy investments and called for “terminat[ing]” the funds that were allocated for those ...

Fifteen Upper Cretaceous marine fossils were found, indicating that Neanderthals may have gathered these objects for reasons beyond practical utility. Collecting objects simply for their aesthetic ...

A recent analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in the village of Nikiti in northern Greece supports the controversial theory that apes, the ancestors of humans, evolved in Southeastern Europe ...

The CCPI, said Höhne, shows "how big the resistance from the fossil fuel lobby is." In the US presidential election, this was "a decisive factor in bringing [Donald] Trump back to the White House ...

Stunningly preserved fossils of reptilian footprints and underbellies discovered last year in the Italian Alps have helped researchers unearth a tropical lakeside ecosystem that predates dinosaurs.

Perhaps for this reason, the response of the fossil-fuel industry is to shrug its shoulders and insist that, despite all the climate damage that fossil fuels cause, we just can’t live without them.

COP29 talks on measures to cut emissions and progress a landmark agreement on “transitioning away from fossil fuels” had to be rescued from the brink of collapse by the COP presidency after opposition ...