"I love anything with nature, natural resources, fossils. It's so cool." She and classmate Brooklyn Blair uncovered imprints of whole leaves, tiny fronds and a smattering of other organic matter ...

While these traits are typically benign, they become concerning when an individual imprints upon extremist ideologies during critical developmental windows. Konrad Lorenz’s imprinting research ...

Fossil, Ammonite close up panning shot, macro. Rock with imprints of ancient fossils and plants. Close-up of ancient mollusk fossils discovered by archaeologists. Surface texture of ancient fossils ...

The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million years before the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. It has ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Fossil evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly serving as an incubator for the earliest members of the group that now includes ducks and geese. A paper published in ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein ...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery catch. A new study of the Great Barrier Reef ...

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously held notions that any organic material found within such ancient fossils ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

For one, "it refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination," he said. The findings, the team explains, may pave the way toward fresh analyses of existing ...

For there is a tendency to frame plastic as a problem of pollution and recycling, rather than as an integral part of our fossil fuel-driven world. This narrative is also promoted by major oil ...