Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

Environmental strain is growing in a region already vulnerable, leaving some countries with little capacity to cope.

In the mid-2010s, insects were hailed as the future of food — a way to sustainably feed the world’s growing human population ...

As the world’s biggest petrostate bombs the runner-up in fossil gas reserves (and number 3 in oil reserves), the rest of the world is looking for an alternative to carbon-fueled power as a matter of ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, it would be journalisting malpractice to overlook the climate consequences of three of Earth's deadliest militaries going ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Oil prices have surged over the $100-a-barrel threshold for the first time in almost four years, says the Financial Times ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...