Fossilized footprints found in both Laetoli, Tanzania, and Trachilos, Crete, may be the earliest evidence of upright walking.

In late October, Bill Gates published an essay where he argues for shifting resources away from combating climate change and ...

The unsustainable production of food and fossil fuels is responsible for causing $5 billion per-hour environmental cost, as ...

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to its small stature).

Australian investment in data centres is already the second highest in the world — but the ravenous big tech industry wants ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

The environmental and human toll of mineral extraction is becoming clearer – and more alarming – by the day. Roughly 60 ...