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

A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned how to walk on just two has been revealed in a new study. Named ...

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

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Mother Mary Comes To Me Arundhati Roy A fierce critic of capitalism, injustice and imperialism, writer and activist Arundhati Roy has written her first work of memoir, Mother Mary […] ...

Scientists succeed in using bacteria and discarded bread to replace fossil fuels in an innovative sustainable industrial ...

F or the first time, chitin has been identified in a Cambrian Period trilobite. The unexpected discovery could be useful for ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have demonstrated a microbial process that uses waste bread to generate hydrogen for industrial hydrogenation, potentially reducing reliance on fossil fuels ...

International shipping is on the rise in the Arctic region now that climate change regularly opens up transpolar sea routes in summer. That surge in traffic is leading to higher emissions of black ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons, in trilobite fossils more than 500 million years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The ...

Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...