Fossil articles
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From Hobby to Artistry: Milovan crafts Pipes from Fossil Wood
In Bijeljina, in the northeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a local craftsman has been handcrafting wooden pipes for decades. Made from fossilized wood that spent hundreds of years underwater, each creation by master craftsman Milovan Petricevic is unique. Milovan has been making wooden smoking pipes for almost five decades. What started as a hobby
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Woodside revenue dives as fossil fuel prices dip
Sluggish production and falling fossil fuel prices have slashed revenues at Australia’s largest oil and gas producer Woodside by almost a third. The Perth-based company’s revenue for the first quarter fell 31 per cent compared to the previous year to $US2.97 billion ($A4.66 million), it announced on Friday. Over the same period, production dropped by […]
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Kermit the Fossil: Muppet inspires ancient amphibian species
Researchers named an amphibian species of a 270 million-year-old fossil found 40 years ago after the famous Muppet character Kermit the Frog.