B esides being the world’s financial capital, New York City is also home to historic treasures. Researchers recently ...

Unlike so many students in Iowa schools, the Iowa Department of Education, apparently, doesn’t have to show its work. So, we ...

I write today to urge a strengthening of support by Cornell University for the Paleontological Research Institution on Trumansburg Rd. in Ithaca. I have visited and delivered lectures at both ...

Researchers Unearth 420-Million-Year-Old ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Species, Helped Them to Connect Human Evolution Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia has provided ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, with a ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas ...

At the time, paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952) assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, meaning shark-toothed lizard. Measuring about 10 metres long ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...

I also volunteer at the Museum, preparing local Devonian fossils and answering questions from students, children and the Ithaca community. Leading students down the museum’s ramp, I see them ...

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.

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...