For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

Your beloved plastic dinosaurs are, in a fascinating twist of fate, descendants of ancient creatures. Millions of years ago, ...

Imagine digging up a fossil that completely rewrites what scientists thought they knew about prehistoric life. Some dinosaur ...

The preserved record of “dinosaur mummies” soft tissue discovered in Wyoming is shedding new light on what these creatures ...

Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), based in Sweden, announced a significant breakthrough in sustainable packaging. The company’s ...

Russia’s Coal Collapse signals the end of the fossil era. From bankrupt mines to battery booms, the global energy transition ...

Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are an advanced form of geothermal energy technology developed to harness Earth’s internal ...

Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of ...

In Laos, archaeologists uncovered fossils suggesting that Homo sapiens left Africa 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The remains, dated to between 86,000 and 68,000 years old, challenge ...

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...