A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a “long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon.” The 16-foot-long aquatic reptile, called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, has 32 separate neck vertebrae – an extremely long neck, according to the National Museums of Scotland, which announced the news on […]
Researchers in Italy have uncovered some enlightening new information about a fossil believed to depict a 280-million-year-old reptile that has been cited in many books and articles over the years. While the fossil, first discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931, was believed to consist of skin and soft tissue, it turns out it’s nothing […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931, has the scientific […]
A fossil that was found in the Italian Alps in the 1930s underwent studies, and it turned out that part of it was forged, per the Natural History Museum in London. The fossil, known as Tridentinosaurus antiquus, was once considered the oldest fossil to contain a spine found in Italy, according to Popular Science. It […]
Concerns spread across social media that a bill introduced by a member of a minority party in Canada’s House of Commons would silence any type of positive speech about the oil and gas industry. This is misleading; the legislation is meant to target advertising from fossil fuel producers and not opinion, and an expert said […]
Amidst a state push for clean energy, the city of Ithaca has announced a $1.9 million suite of electrification projects poised to push the city’s reliance on fossil fuels even closer to being a thing of the past. Plans for building electrification and other environmental initiatives have been outlined in the city’s Green New Deal, […]
Jan. 29—New Mexico’s fossil fuel industry is enjoying a record boom in the Permian Basin, and state officials want the education system to benefit even more than it has from the oil-rich region by making companies pay more to drill on state lands there. The House Commerce and Economic Development Committee voted 6-5 Monday, mostly […]
A grad student has discovered a never-before-seen dinosaur after he purchased fossils online for a class project. The beaked beast, nicknamed “pharaoh’s dawn chicken from hell,” roamed Earth during the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago) and hails from the South Dakota section of the Hell Creek Formation (which dates to […]
The credibility of the Cop28 agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels rides on the world’s biggest historical polluters like the US, UK and Canada rethinking current plans to expand oil and gas production, according to the climate negotiator representing 135 developing countries. Related: Oil industry veteran to lead next round of Cop climate change […]
NASA scientists have observed a stunning cosmic fossil that was created when a supermassive black hole erupted over 5 million years ago. The team at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center used the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) space telescope with help from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the X-rays that outline cold gas clouds in […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In an ancient temperate forest in what is now Oregon, an insect dug deep into a sandy bank near a creek. There, in a damp burrow, she laid dozens of oblong eggs, about 50 in all. […]
The world’s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found in a limestone cave in Oklahoma, United States, and is at least 130 million years older than the oldest previously known skin fossil. […]