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A fossil is any preserved remains, trace, or impression of any once-living organism from a past geologic age. Examples of fossils include exoskeletons, bones, shells, or stone imprints of animals or microbes. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record. Credit: Shutterstock
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FEB 10, 2017Earth & The Environment
Massachusetts might be the first to spearhead a bill on carbon, instigating a system for a carbon tax that will encourag ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 09, 2017Earth & The Environment
Patagonia is calling out Utah for Governor Herbert’s endorsement of rescinding the Bears Ears National Monument, d ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 08, 2017Videos
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Paleontologists are always looking for dinosaur fossils to research, and a recent finding from the Yunnan Province in Ch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 07, 2017Neuroscience
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A dubious claim was made by researchers - they had retrieved dinosaur collagen from an 80-million-year-old sample; that ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 03, 2017Earth & The Environment
Ireland has taken the biggest leap that any nation has yet to taken: the commitment to divest all public funds from foss ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 02, 2017Earth & The Environment
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently released a report documenting 2016’s growth in Electric Power Gen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 01, 2017Plants & Animals
Modern-day otters, excluding sea otters, aren’t really all that big; they typically don’t ever weigh more th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 29, 2017Microbiology
After four years, research collaboration has revealed details about the evolution of dinoflagellates, along with new det ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 20, 2017Videos
Today might be a rainy day on my side of the world, but despite the weather we must continue to look towards sunnier day ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced two exciting new Discovery missions that are intended to help us learn more about the Solar System we ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 08, 2017Plants & Animals
Dinosaurs are a constant fascination because it seems that we continue to learn more and more about them with each fossi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 05, 2017Plants & Animals
Just as human juveniles happen to lose their baby teeth to make way for much larger and stringer adult teeth, scientists ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 22, 2016Plants & Animals
A fossilized relic encased inside of a hunk of amber appears to be a well-preserved specimen of a dinosaur tail with fea ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 17, 2016Microbiology
Sawdust is thought of as a byproduct that isn't useful for much, but scientists at the Department of Energy's PNNL turne ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 10, 2016Plants & Animals
One of the things researchers always want to know more about is the history of life on our planet. Unearthing details ab ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 08, 2016Cancer
A graduate student interested in how teeth formed in an ancient fossil inadvertently uncovered what researchers are call ...DEC 07, 2016Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2016Plants & Animals
Most of the time, when a very old fossil is found, it’s not easy to get color samples from the fossil because of i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 23, 2016Videos
On a clear day, you can see forever? Well, not exactly. In India, deadly smog has reduced visibility, but more than that ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 21, 2016Earth & The Environment
Last Friday the Obama administration put a block on drilling in the Arctic and along the West Coast through 2022. The pr ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 10, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Massachusetts might be the first to spearhead a bill on carbon, instigating a system for a carbon tax that will encourag
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 09, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Patagonia is calling out Utah for Governor Herbert’s endorsement of rescinding the Bears Ears National Monument, d
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 08, 2017
Videos
In the almost two decades since the 21st century began, there have been rapid advances in renewable energy technology as
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
Paleontologists are always looking for dinosaur fossils to research, and a recent finding from the Yunnan Province in Ch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 07, 2017
Neuroscience
No matter where you go, there will be some particulate matter in the air you breathe. Some of it occurs naturally, like
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The construction of Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in the western province of Qinghai, China advocates the nation’s go
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 05, 2017
Videos
A dubious claim was made by researchers - they had retrieved dinosaur collagen from an 80-million-year-old sample; that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 03, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Ireland has taken the biggest leap that any nation has yet to taken: the commitment to divest all public funds from foss
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 02, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently released a report documenting 2016’s growth in Electric Power Gen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 01, 2017
Plants & Animals
Modern-day otters, excluding sea otters, aren’t really all that big; they typically don’t ever weigh more th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 29, 2017
Microbiology
After four years, research collaboration has revealed details about the evolution of dinoflagellates, along with new det
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 20, 2017
Videos
Today might be a rainy day on my side of the world, but despite the weather we must continue to look towards sunnier day
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA has announced two exciting new Discovery missions that are intended to help us learn more about the Solar System we
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
Dinosaurs are a constant fascination because it seems that we continue to learn more and more about them with each fossi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
Just as human juveniles happen to lose their baby teeth to make way for much larger and stringer adult teeth, scientists
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 22, 2016
Plants & Animals
A fossilized relic encased inside of a hunk of amber appears to be a well-preserved specimen of a dinosaur tail with fea
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2016
Microbiology
Sawdust is thought of as a byproduct that isn't useful for much, but scientists at the Department of Energy's PNNL turne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The search for life in our Solar System is continuous, and still, to no avail, but researchers aren’t giving up ye
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 10, 2016
Plants & Animals
One of the things researchers always want to know more about is the history of life on our planet. Unearthing details ab
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 08, 2016
Cancer
A graduate student interested in how teeth formed in an ancient fossil inadvertently uncovered what researchers are call
...
DEC 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2016
Plants & Animals
Most of the time, when a very old fossil is found, it’s not easy to get color samples from the fossil because of i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 23, 2016
Videos
On a clear day, you can see forever? Well, not exactly. In India, deadly smog has reduced visibility, but more than that
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 21, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Last Friday the Obama administration put a block on drilling in the Arctic and along the West Coast through 2022. The pr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan