What Exactly Are Fossil Fuels? Fossil fuels, simply put, are natural substances made from decomposed plants and animals. Over ...

Have you ever wondered the age of Earth? It's 4.543 billion years. This life-giving planet has seen so many ages come and go, ...

Walter Stein, Triebold's field manager, had recently discovered a single rib poking out of concrete-hard sandstone on private land Triebold had leased for fossil collecting. The prospect of ...

Fossil fuels are the product of millions of years of earth's natural processes. Learn how they are extracted, their effect on the planet, and how we can lessen our dependence on them.

*Fossil fuels include coal, oil and natural gas. *They are the remains of forests from millions of years ago, and when burned, all the carbon that these forests absorbed is released back into the air.

Find out how they lived, when they vanished, and how much we know about them today. Based on the fossil record, ammonites came in a wide range of sizes and shapes, from smaller than an inch to as ...

The energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

The fossil provides a rare glimpse into a time of global environmental changes and faunal turnover, when some species go extinct while new ones are introduced due to varying changes in the habitat.

Aa Aa Aa Until recently, the evolutionary events that surrounded the origin of the hominin lineage — which includes modern humans and our fossil relatives — were virtually unknown, and our ...