China is stepping up its diplomacy as the Iran war drags on. It has put forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan and is ...

More than 700 fossils from China’s Jiangchuan Biota reveal that complex animals had origins millions of years earlier than ...

Structural energy shortages, not geopolitics alone, are driving global conflict, and a U.S. defeat in Iran could accelerate a necessary economic reorganization toward reduced energy consumption.

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A fast, land-running Triassic croc reveals how convergent evolution shaped predator bodies across time and environments.

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Fossil fuel companies go to extraordinary lengths to exclude people who might criticise them from seeing their ads ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...