But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

At present, half the electricity generating capacity in India is non-fossil-fuel based — a significant achievement by all counts. But how smooth will the path be to completely phasing out dirty fuels?

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two long-extinct Ice Age species: the short-faced bear (Arctotherium wingei) and the ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

(CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

A new “apex predator” dinosaur species has been discovered based on its fossil, unearthed in Argentina with a crocodile bone stuck in its jaws. The species has been named Joaquinraptor casali, and was ...

A microscopic magnetite fossil (left) discovered in sediment below the North Atlantic, seen using X-ray microscopy; the fossil?s magnetic configuration, with magnetic moments swirling around a central ...

Fossils are 50 times smaller than the width of a hair New study shows they could help an organism navigate Eels are one possibility and microbes are another Nov 17 (Reuters) - Microscopic magnetic ...