Organic residues on pots from Northern and Eastern Europe show plants were an important part of the local diet several thousand years ago ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

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 ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

A newly discovered 275-million-year-old species found near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil had a jaw unlike anything seen before — and it’s forcing scientists to rethink when ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

A surge in natural gas prices since the Middle East war erupted has sparked renewed debate about Europe's electricity market, where prices are still linked to gas.

When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf region use the fossil fuels under their desert lands not only to make money, but also to make ...

New research suggests that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, much earlier than scientists once thought. Fossil evidence from Texas ...