The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
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Fossil of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica
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The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Image A digital reconstruction of Vegavis iaai’s skull, completed following high-resolution micro-computed tomography of a fossil-bearing concretion discovered on Vega Island.Credit ...
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Which Sustainable Funds Are Fossil-Fuel-Free?
In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...
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8 Fossil Hotspots That Uncovered Earth’s Lost Creatures!
From ancient dinosaurs to mysterious early mammals, these eight fossil sites have provided some of the most groundbreaking ...
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Paleontologists Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions Than It Answers
The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...
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France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped
France’s low-carbon electricity output surged to more than 95% of annual power production for the first time in 2024, as rising nuclear and hydro generation squeezed the use of fossil fuels.
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Rediscovered fossil reveals rare bird skull from 45 million years ago
The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.
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Fossil Fuel Billionaires Boost Wealth by $3 Billion After Trump’s Inauguration
The connection between Trump’s rise and policy choices and American business leaders is especially true for the top fossil fuel billionaires, says the Climate Accountability Research Project (CARP).
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Judge dismisses NYC’s climate case against the fossil fuel industry
State Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel said the city failed to prove that Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP misled New Yorkers about the climate impacts of fossil fuels. In a win for the fossil fuel ...
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Trump returns with big fossil fuel plans
but the president’s opening words — and subsequent plans to declare a national energy emergency — underscore his intent to push his executive powers to the limit to boost fossil fuels.