Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur.

Illustration showing a baby embolomere, with an adult in the background. (Gabriel Ugueto) (CN) — New fossils from an Illinois site are forcing scientists to rewrite one of evolution’s biggest chapters ...

The world’s deepest known whale graveyard has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean at a depth of 7 kilometres. The remains found there include a new species of extinct beaked whale and other ...

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China and the European Union have joined forces in a bid to create a global alliance on carbon pricing, putting them at odds with the Trump administration’s push to invest more in fossil fuels. The ...

A small Australian mountain dragon once lived across a wider, lower landscape compared to the scattered populations that exist today. Climate warming pushed suitable habitats uphill, causing ...

Two mummified reptile specimens discovered in an Oklahoma cave are providing scientists with the clearest evidence yet of how breathing on land evolved — a shift that ultimately shaped the way humans ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...