New archaeological research by the University of Sydney has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

NEA system cost analyses are based on the workings of a country’s electricity system, techno-economic modelling and policy ...

Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long ...

Researchers have discovered an exceptionally preserved fossil site in Massachusetts that provides a rare glimpse into ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before ...