One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Before the conference kicked off this year, host country Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cast this as the ...

While chairing the African group at the summit, the gas-dependent nation advised the continent's ministers to block language ...

The Laetoli site in Tanzania is globally famous for its australopithecine trackways, which remain the only tracks of these ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess.

Scientists say microscopic magnetite fossils may have enabled an ancient creature to detect Earth’s magnetic field, offering clues to how early species navigated long distances.

The carbon dioxide might be transported as a supercritical gas – which is right at the phase change from liquid to gas and has the properties of both – or dissolved in a liquid. Once injected deep ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost ...

The assumption that big spinning machines are needed to keep the lights on could delay the exit of coal. Hence the need to ...

An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve ...