A unique glimpse into Earth's ancient past is offered by the Fossil Forest in Dorset, England, where tree remains from…
More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday…
A study by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) suggests that early Homo species may have experienced extended childhoods well…
A preserved fossil bird from the Mesozoic Era is providing unprecedented insights into the evolution of avian intelligence. Discovered in…
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research by the Global…
Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such…
A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new…
Of all the mammals, bats have one of the poorest fossil records, with palaeontologists estimating that about 80 per cent…
Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) have found the first molecular evidence of phaeomelanin, the pigment that produces ginger colouration,…