Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

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Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

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It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Electrification, EVs, data centers and AI mean the planet needs to dramatically increase its power generation, transmission ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its web site that connected climate change to ...