Baby pterosaur fossils with broken wings solve Solnhofen Limestone preservation mysteryTwo baby pterosaur fossils nicknamed Lucky and Lucky II discovered at Solnhofen reveal storm-related deaths 150 million years ago. Universi...
66-million-year-old fossilised vomit found in DenmarkA fascinating discovery from the Cretaceous period reveals a shark — or possibly another fish — may have swallowed sea lilies, only to late...
In 120 million-year-old fossil, scientists find oldest record of dinosaur preying on mammalPaleontologists found a fossil of a bird sized dinosaur known as a microraptor, with remains of a mouse inside it.
Volcanic rocks may trigger massive unpredicted global warming effects: Study
Volcanic rocks may trigger massive unpredicted global warming effects: StudyThey created a model of changes in carbon emissions during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) - a short interval of maximum temper...
Vedanta makes gas discovery in Krishna Godavari block"Further appraisal will be required to assess the potential commerciality of this Mesozoic rift discovery," the firm added.
- How did bird-like meat-eating dinosaurs lost their fingers?
Johannesburg, Aug 24 (IANS) An international team of paleontologists have found how a meat-eating species of dinosaurs, that share many sim...
- Fossil study identifies 200 million-year-old insect colour
Washington, April 12 (IANS) An international team led by Chinese scientists has revealed the wing colour of a 200 million-year-old insect v...
- Dinosaurs could have survived had asteroid struck elsewhere: Study
Tokyo, Nov 11 (IANS) Dinosaurs might not have gone extinct had the the asteroid that hit Earth some 66 million years ago and triggered the ...
- 'Ichthyosaurs fossil find shows India's biological connect as part of Gondwanaland'
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) The discovery of a near-complete fossil of a Jurassic-period 'fish lizard' from a village in Gujarat's Kutch distr...
Earth may have brand new continent 'Zealandia'The 4.9 million kilometre region of the southwest Pacific Ocean is made up of continental crust, researchers said.
Jurassic period saw fastest mammal evolutionMammals were evolving up to ten times faster in the middle of the Jurassic than they were at the end of the period, coinciding with an expl...
Cairn India makes 3 more oil discoveries in RajasthanExploration well DP-1 has encountered 70 meter gross oil bearing interval in the Barmer Hill formation. The well has been fracced and teste...
Focus on exploratory activity in difficult, less explored areas: Veerappa Moily"We have sustained a constant economic growth, but for all our technological advances, we are still an energy deficient nation', Moily said.
- RIL sniffs gas in 1st exploration well in 5 years
RIL has encountered natural gas in the first exploration well it spud in more than five years on the flagging natural gas fields in KG-D6 b...
RIL spuds first exploration well in five yearsRIL has given the well a pre-drill best case gross prospective resource of 819 billion cubic feet of gas and 56 million barrels of liquids.
- ONGC strikes oil and gas in Deccan Traps
Hydrocarbon has been found in the exploratory well Karjan-9, drilled in the nomination block Karjan extension-1 in Ankleshwar (Gujarat).