New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

The US should stop the closure of coal-fired power plants, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, adding the fuel source would ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

Three years ago, one of the country’s largest electric utilities, Southern Company, made a splash when it announced it would ...

The Natural History Museum, London, is known for publishing excellent books and ‘A History of Plants in 50 Fossils’ is another tour de force to add to its catalogue. Telling the story of plant life on ...

With clean energy and storage solutions are proving more reliable and cost-effective, investing in fossil fuels is a mistake ...

But in the push for cleaner energy sources, coal, known as the dirtiest fossil fuel, has fallen out of favor. In 2013, at the urging of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Nevada lawmakers passed a bill requiring ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...