Jeff Young is Newsweek's Environment and Sustainability Editor based in Louisville, Kentucky. His focus is climate change and ...

Fish do much more than just swim around in the ocean. They are active climate helpers, playing vital roles in storing and ...

American scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan on Monday (October 6) won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work shedding light on how the immune ...

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina named army General Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister on Monday (October 6), a week after dissolving the government in response to ongoing protests over ...

Unfortunately, the fossil record only provides a very patchy picture of the early days of animals. It's particularly ...

What were the first animals to appear on Earth? New research points to a surprising candidate: sea sponges. A team of ...

The oil and gas industry is one of the largest sectors in the world, valued at $6.10 trillion in 2024 and projected to surpass $8.79 trillion by 2034. The sector also generated more than $4.2 trillion ...

“Major groups such as non-flying dinosaurs, mosasaurs, and flying reptiles (pterosaurs) went completely extinct,” researchers said. “The hardy decapod crustaceans survived though, and they still ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

Surely a contender for the most bizarre-looking dinosaur of them all is Yi. This small (in size and name) dinosaur from the ...

When freshman pre-business administration major Luke Travis picked up a curious rock while exploring the natural areas around ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...