A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other potential ...

A revolutionary study from the University of Liverpool has upended fundamental assumptions about the fossilization process, potentially transforming how scientists approach the study of ancient life.

A team of researchers has discovered the cranium of a fossil ape from Shuitangba, a Miocene site in Yunnan Province, China. The juvenile cranium of the fossil ape Lufengpithecus is significant, ...

They’re not many people’s favorite bird, likely due to their macabre associations, but recently a vulture has got the scientific community very excited. That’s because the vulture in question is ...

Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels hidden inside fossilized bones. In a massive Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Scotty ...

Palaeontologists have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Fossil lovers get ready, there's a mammoth of a fossil coming soon to the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM). Well, maybe not a mammoth, but a close relative — a mastodon.