fossil
Fears hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists could derail crucial plastic pollution summit
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is…
Read More »Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours
November 28, 2024 3 min read Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours Two sets of…
Read More »Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans
3D laser scan of the specimen, Uncus dzaugisi Mary L. Droser A worm-like creature preserved in ancient rock has just…
Read More »Fossil Fuels Are Not Essential
The final results are not yet in, but it’s pretty certain that 2024 is going to be the hottest year…
Read More »Meet FRED: The world’s 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database
New Zealand is the only country in the world that has an essentially complete, open-access database of its known fossil…
Read More »How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans
A reconstruction of the famous hominin Lucy Frank Nowikowski/Alamy This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about…
Read More »Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
The skeleton of Navaornis hestiae, an 80-million-year-old bird fossil S. Abramowicz/Dinosaur Institute/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County An 80-million-year-old…
Read More »Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high
Wildfires in the tropics drove some increase in CO2 emissions but the bulk was driven by burning fossil fuels Carl…
Read More »