For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

The UN on Tuesday unveiled its largest-ever scientific assessment on the dire state of the environment, but a crucial summary of its findings was torpedoed as nations feuded over fossil fuels.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock ...

The Trump administration has removed scientific data and climate change information from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) webpages, including all references to human activities driving ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

The fossilized remains of a very unlucky bird that lived about 120 million years ago reveal something that's rarely clear ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...