Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

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 ...

Editorial: The war reveals Britain’s exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices. More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building domestic green energy will ...

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

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 ...

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.’ ...

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 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 ...