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 ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa ...

For the first week of the Iran war, the world’s attention has been fixed firmly on oil. Analyst have talked about tanker movements in the Strait of Ho.

Researchers have unearthed the tiny, fossilized teeth of the earliest-known relative of primates, pushing its range further south than ever before and giving us new insights into how it spread through ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

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 citizen scientist's wildlife photo helped researchers confirm two marsupial species thought extinct for over 7,000 years are still alive.

Pakistan’s transition toward electric mobility has entered a decisive phase, and the recent debate surrounding the ...