Many fossils found in the early 20th century were given a quick glance before being labeled and stored, but a second look often yields surprises.

A newly described dinosaur from Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis, is changing how scientists picture life in southern Africa ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Our countries are dependent on imported fossil fuels. Their volatile prices hold our economies hostage, fluctuating to the ...

Two Ju/'hoansi master trackers from Namibia helped identify Ice Age lion tracks at three sites on South Africa's Cape coast, ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

Today, the Abu Tartur Plateau in Egypt is a dry, rugged desert. Around 80 million years ago, however, this same landscape lay beneath a productive tropical sea. Fourteen fossilized teeth belonging to ...

Bone strength in seven fossils shows early Homo committed to the ground, while Australopithecus kept the arm strength of a climbing ape.

Current U.S. policy favors fossil fuel producers with billions in subsidies while blocking wind and solar development projects.

Marina Biber was eight when her family fled Rhodesia and came to Switzerland. Decades later, she stumbled across old ...

The fossilised skull of a new species of mysterious meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight has been rediscovered in the collections of the Natural History Museum after over 100 years in storage.

General Secretary of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), Comrade Akhator Joel Odigie, explains why he believes electricity privatisation is ...