Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, ...

India is often celebrated for its monuments, biodiversity, and living cultures, but beneath its soil lies another extraordinary heritage, fossils that record life from hundreds of millions of years ...

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

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

Scientists in China have identified 15-million-year-old freshwater fish fossils from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing a warmer climate.

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

Santos beat greenwashing claims in court, and while the ruling exposes the limits of climate law, the battle for climate justice and accountability is just ramping up.

China and France are retrofitting coal and nuclear plants to operate more intermittently, reflecting how growing renewable ...