For more than half a century, nuclear power has faced strong public opposition driven by fears of catastrophic accidents. Meanwhile, fossil fuels continue to dominate the global energy system despite ...

Researchers believe these creatures started out on four legs and later began walking on two legs as they grew.

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

In this fascinating talk, paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy explains the shocking discovery of nearly 1,800 fossils from a ...

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

Researchers working near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil unearthed a twisted fossilized jawbone and couldn’t figure out what they were looking at. Was it broken? Deformed? Did i ...

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 ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of ...

Known as Tanyka amnicola, this lake-dweller with twisted jaws and teeth pointed outward lived in Gondwana 275 million years ...

Based on these details, its closest evolutionary relatives, and its river habitat, the study’s authors believe Tanyka likely resembled a three-foot-long salamander sporting a lengthier snout. But at ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...