A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be ...

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

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

Ever since scientists began to understand evolution, they've been arguing over the contentious question of what, exactly, the ...

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, ...

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, ...

“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 ...

Gisele Pelicot returned to court on Monday (October 6) to face the only man, out of 51, who appealed his guilty verdict in a ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

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

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an ...

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