Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

An ancient snake fossil discovered in England reveals a strange new species and clues to the origins of modern snakes.

Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate measures has quadrupled since 2000, with some datasets showing a fifteen-fold ...

The museum underwent hardship in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the high operational costs led the city to consider ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

Scientists have uncovered minuscule fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin, hinting at the southward spread of early primates after the dinosaur extinction. These tiny fossils challenge long-held ...

Utah Republicans have called for an energy "divorce" from blue states. It's not just about money, but also identity.

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Faced with rising prices and disruptions to their oil and gas supplies, many Asian countries heavily dependent on fossil fuels from the ...