Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes go missing.

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE and CIRAD researchers answered th…

Pennsylvania developers plan seven new gas plants for data centers, adding emissions equal to 14 million cars. This undermines climate goals by prioritizing ch…

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels.

Natural gas still plays an important role in many industrial sectors, but it is a climate-damaging fossil fuel. TU Wien and the University of Innsbruck have no…

An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. The specime…

Climate change made Europe's current heat wave at least 10 times more likely, with temperatures over 40°C (104°F) that would have been "virtually impossible" w…

A newly identified saber-toothed cat species, *Machairodus lahayishupup*, from over 5 million years ago shows saber-tooth evolution began with smaller fangs th…

NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence of past water, methane spikes, and key life-supporting chemicals on Mars, suggesting it once hosted microbial life. Fossi…