A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a fly with parasitic fungi bursting from their bodies.

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

A new study finds tree planting alone can't offset carbon from fossil fuel reserves, highlighting the financial and physical ...

Researchers examine a 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco and find out that echinoderms went from bilateral to ...

Fungal fossils, hundreds of millions ... a polysaccharide. And those that do don’t form these kinds of filaments, ... a researcher at London’s Natural History Museum who wasn’t involved in ...

Signs point to fracking. Natural gas is mainly methane. Fracking involves drilling an oil or gas well vertically and then horizontally into a shale formation. A mixture of highly pressurized water ...

For centuries, the origins of oil and natural gas have sparked scientific curiosity. In 1757, Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov proposed a theory that oil formed from the general decomposition of ...