New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

Donald Trump’s seizure of three public golf courses in D.C. is another example of his authoritarian overreach.

A quarter of New York City’s residents struggle to pay the monthly power bill. Con Ed shut off power to 88,000 households in ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Wind and solar, now cheaper than fossil fuels, can spare millions of people from the worst effects of warming.