In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

The coal, oil and gas industries 'are by far the largest contributor to global climate change', the UN says [File: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters] The expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure is threatening ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

The remains of a forest of lycopsids and other oddities is 230 feet underground (John Nelson, left, and Scott Elrick inspect a mine shaft ceiling rich in fossils.) Layne Kennedy Finding a fossil in a ...

Mike Trask’s Comox Valley-based discovery would forever change paleontology in B.C. and would inspire a flood of amateur ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they changed the composition of the atmosphere, scientists say. When you ...

2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada's climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

State-owned fossil fuel producers made up 17 of the top 20 emitters in the Carbon Majors report, which the authors said ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...