Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Power-hungry AI data centers are driving up electricity demand in the US. This may lead to increased use of fossil fuel power plants, but green-focused firms are still seeking ways to trim carbon ...

Schott, University of Minnesota Extension Since the release of a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report in 2006, we’ve heard more and more about the carbon ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

A team of researchers from Okayama University of Science (OUS) in Japan and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy ...

Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have discovered a vast quarry floor covered with hundreds of ...

In the 1970s, as rock walls were blasted and roads constructed, these tracks were likely exposed. A resident recalled discovering these unusual footprints in 2006. Recognizing their potential ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

"The fossil fuel industry has endless resources ... The state's economy heavily depends on oil and gas, even as California looks to reduce its carbon footprint, she said. "We need real solutions to ...