With Trump calling $100 per oil barrel "a small price to pay" after the attack on Iran, we've dug into the costs for people ...

The Center for Biological Diversity, San Juan Citizens Alliance and Tó Nizhóní Ání took legal action against New Mexico today for failing to require hundreds of oil and gas operators to plug thousands ...

Deep in the heart of Borneo’s tropical rainforests, a rare and mysterious living fossil lurks in the shadows: the earless monitor lizard, known as the “mini-dragon.” This elusive creature, with its ...

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

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Homo habilis is a paradoxical species. On the one hand, ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

That’s the question at the heart of “The Beginning Comes After the End,” the new book by the prolific and critically ...

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

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

The Goblin shark has survived nearly unchanged since ancient oceans, earning its reputation as a true living fossil. This video walks through its discovery, its transparent skin that reveals blood ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...