The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

Scientists in western India have uncovered fossil remains of a gargantuan prehistoric snake that may have been one of the ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Climate change shifted the oil production debate from scarcity to demand. If countries do not deliver on ambitious green ...

Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish, scheduled for argument on Jan. 12, centers on the fossil fuel industry’s effort to move a ...

Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and ...