Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

Oil giant Shell plans to boost fossil fuel production even as the company says it still aims to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Critics concerned about climate change say to meet that ...

Not only that, it's among the first dinosaur eggs – or evidence of any dinosaurs, for that matter – found in the roughly ...

Ocean acidification caused a mass extinction of marine life 66 million years ago, research into tiny shell fossils has shown. This could have implications for the current climate crisis, which is also ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

Shell pledged to "create more value with less emissions" while increasing shareholder returns through a balanced energy transition that includes more fossil fuel production, it said in an investor ...

Scientists in China uncover crystal-filled dinosaur eggs, revealing a glittering twist in prehistoric life and evolution.

Victims of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a legal claim against oil and gas company Shell in the UK courts, seeking compensation for what they say is the company's role in making the ...