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 ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

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

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

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct 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 plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

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

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.

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

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 ...

Indian carmakers are split on a Niti Aayog report. Some support classifying flex-fuel and compressed biogas vehicles as zero-emission. Others argue only tailpipe emissions should count. This debate ...